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Ahoj, jmenuju se Veronika. Hi everybody! I am Veronika.
Welcome to CzechClass101.com’s “Česky za 3 minuty”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Czech.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about things you own by using the verb mít, “to have.”
Máš auto? means “Do you have a car?”
[slowly] Máš auto?
Let’s take a closer look at this question.
Máš means “Do you have”. You can see that mít has been conjugated to máš because the subject is ty.
Auto means “a car” and it is in the accusative case.
So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question?
Just turn the verb mít into the 1st person mám meaning”I have”
So in this case, we go from
Máš auto? to
Mám auto. “I have a car.”
[slowly] Mám auto.
Say for example that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Máš tužku? Which is “Do you have a pen?” Notice that unlike the earlier examples, the nominative tužka changes in accusative to tužku.
If you only have a red pen, you can answer Mám červenou tužku. “I have a red pen.”
Okay, so now let’s look at the FORMAL way to ask someone if he or she has something.
Instead of máš, you’ll start with máte, to mean “do you have”. For example...
Máte auto? means “Do you have a car?”
[slowly] Máte auto?
Now it’s time for Veronika’s Insights.
If you want to ask someone whether he or she has free time tomorrow, you can also use the verb mít in Czech. Maybe you remember that the word “tomorrow” is zítra. So you simply say: Máš zítra čas? meaning “Do you have time tomorrow?” And the formal version is Máte zítra čas?
In recent lessons, you have learned about the verbs být meaning “to be”, and mít, meaning “to have”.
Next time you’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”.
Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in Czech, you just have to add a prefix?
I'll be waiting for you in the next Česky za 3 minuty lesson.
Ahoj!

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