Declension and Cases

The declension of adjectives depends on the gender, number and grammatical case of the noun they develop.

The process of declension:
1. determine a model adjective
2. determine gender (feminine, masculine, neuter)
3. determine grammatical case (Czech has 7 cases)

Model adjectives for declension:
Hard adjectives: mladý (young)
Soft adjectives: jarní (spring)

Possessive adjectives:

• masculine: otcův (father's)
• feminine: matčin (mother's)

In addition to the model adjectives mentioned above, there is a small group of non-inflected adjectives, words usually borrowed from other languages (prima, super).

Czech language has 7 grammatical cases:
1. Nominative: Kdo? Co? (who? what?)
2. Genitive: Koho? Čeho? (without whom? without what?)
3. Dative: Komu? Čemu? (to whom? to what?)
4. Accusative: Koho? Co? (I see whom? I see what?)
5. Vocative: Oslovujeme, voláme (I call, addressing a person directly)
6. Locative: O kom? O čem?(about whom? about what?)
7. Instrumental: S kým? S čím? (with whom? with what?)