Czech months and dates
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[edit] What's the Date?
The following is a handy formula for expressing the date in Czech:
den, datum měsíc rok = (Week-)day, date month year.
Dates in Czech are little-endian. You'll note the month is not capitalised as it typically is in English. Furthermore the genitive case is used, because you're talking about the eleventh day of September, and not the eleventh September. The date is usually written as a numeral immediately followed by a period (.), indicating that it is an ordinal number.
As a final note, in the Czech Republic, most people express the shorthand date: DD.MM.YYYY.
[edit] For Example...
- 5. října 1936 ("pátého října, devatenáct set třicet šest"): Václav Havel's birthdate.
- 1. ledna 1993 ("prvního ledna, devatenáct set devadesát tři"): the "Velvet Divorce" leads to the creation of the Czech Republic.
[edit] Months in Czech
Czech is one of several languages that do not use the Latin names for months which are common in western Europe. Here are the months of the year in Czech:
| měsíc = month | ||||
| Month | Locative "in ..." |
Genitive "the 'nth' of ..." |
Etymology | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leden | v lednu | ledna | from led = ice |
| 2 | únor | v únoru | února | melting ice |
| 3 | březen | v březnu | března | month of birch |
| 4 | duben | v dubnu | dubna | month of oak |
| 5 | květen | v květnu | května | month of flowering |
| 6 | červen | v červnu | června | from červ = worm, or possibly červená = red |
| 7 | červenec | v červenci | července | month of ripening ("reddening") fruit |
| 8 | srpen | v srpnu | srpna | month of harvest, srp = sickle |
| 9 | září | v září | září | from zářit = to shine, i.e. when the sun shines, without warming |
| 10 | říjen | v říjnu | října | rutting season |
| 11 | listopad | v listopadu | listopadu | month of falling leaves, from list (leaf) + padat (to fall) |
| 12 | prosinec | v prosinci | prosince | probably from prasinec, the season when pigs (prasata) were slaughtered |
[edit] Seasons
roční období = seasons of the year.
- jaro = spring.
- léto = summer.
- podzim = autumn.
- zima = winter.
