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Jana249May 2019 a man: Nemám rád víno. a woman: Nemám rada víno. |
JacobSVKOctober 2013 hello well if i understand what you are trying to say is "i don´t like a wine". First you have to realise there are 3 genders in slovak language- masculine, feminim and neutral. If you are woman you have to speak in feminim form, it means you have to change verb "to like (mať rád)" to "mám rada (i like)" for feminim. |
MuYangMay 2021 In Slovak (and in Slavic languages) are three different genders. Male nouns typically end in a consonant, feminines typically end in a vowel ”a”, and in a neutral noun a vowel ”o” or ”e”. When we name them, it is preceded by ”article”, in English it is not because there are only ”a” and ”an” here. These ”articles” are: male/ten, female/tá, neutral/to. Similarly, as ”der, die, das” is used in German. When I name a noun, I say one of the ten / ta / to together and then the noun. These should sound harmonious, so here the phonetics tells us what is right.
For example, in a subset:
1, Mother / Tá matka (female)
2, Father / ten otec (male)
3, Pero / to pero (neutral)
Of course, there are exceptions here as well, but there are fewer of them and they can be learned.
This main principle applies to the nominativ case. For example, in the case of possessive pronouns:
My mother (woman) / moja matka
My father (male) / môj otec
My little baby (neutral) / moje bábätko
In a neutral case, one should not think that the child has no gender, but that it is not the gender that is important in the context.
For example if I say that:
”My baby is 4 months old / Moje bábätko má 4 mesiace.”
Or if I say that:
”I am going to somewhere with ...”
”... my mom / ... s mojou matkou”
”... my father / ... s mojim otcom”
”... my little baby / s mpjim bábetkom”
But here the possessive pronouns are also conjugated.
MilsteMay 2021 Nechutná mi víno alebo nepijem víno. This grammar formulation is gender-neutral and you can use this sentence for both - masculine and feminine. |