Learn how to use the verbs "to like" and "to love"
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| Ahoj, já jsem 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 the last lesson, you learned how to use the verb dělat which means "to do" in Czech. |
| In this lesson, you will learn how to use milovat, the most romantic Czech verb. |
| Milovat means "to love" in Czech, so in this lesson you are going to see how to use it correctly. You’ll also learn the difference between milovat meaning “to love” and mít rád meaning “to like”. Let’s go! Tak začněme! |
| Imagine you are in a restaurant with your fiancé and he or she asks you: Máš ráda sýr? |
| This means "Do you like cheese?" in an informal form. |
| So supposing you like it, you can say |
| Ano, mám ráda sýr. |
| [slowly] Ano, mám ráda sýr. |
| So let’s break down this answer: |
| First we had: |
| Ano which is simply "Yes." |
| Then we had mám ráda, which is the 1st person form of the verb mít rád in the present indicative “to like”. |
| As you know from lesson 14, mít means “to have”. Rád can actually have two forms. If you are a female or are asking a female something, like in our example, you should use the form ráda. If you are a male or are asking a male something, use the form rád. |
| Finally we had sýr-- that is the correct way to refer to cheese in general. |
| So all together it is Ano, mám ráda sýr. if you are a female and Ano, mám rád sýr. if you are a male. |
| Mít rád, meaning "to like" is also the verb to use when talking about something you really like. |
| Mám ho ráda, means "I like him" or Mám ji rád, means "I like her". You use mít rád if you are talking about friends but also if you are in love with somebody but don’t want to be direct. To express stronger feelings, you would use the verb "milovat", meaning “to love.” |
| In fact, the verb milovat has different levels of understanding. For example, if you say |
| Miluju sýr it will mean that you really like cheese. |
| To say that you really love or enjoy something or someone, you can add the word opravdu before the verb milovat as in Tenhle film opravdu miluju. which means "I really like this movie". Here it is stronger and means you like it very much. |
| And of course, milovat is above all the verb of love, so if you are talking to the person you fell in love with, you can tell him or her Miluju tě, which is the famous "I love you" in Czech! Isn’t that romantic? |
| Now it’s time for Veronika’s Insights. |
| To express feelings of love towards your family you would say Mám tě ráda. or Mám tě rád. since Miluju tě. is generally used between couples. |
| If you want to make this statement stronger, you can add moc before ráda or rád. It means “I like you a lot”. |
| Mám tě moc ráda. Mám tě moc rád. |
| In this lesson, you learned how to use the verb milovat depending on the degree of your love! |
| Next time you’ll learn another very useful verb, přijít. |
| Do you know what this Czech verb means? I’ll be waiting for you with the answer in the next Česky za 3 minuty lesson. |
| Ahoj! |
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