Basic Slovak Grammar

Slovak words are many and kinda hard to remember. Not on their own, but when used in a sentence. It is always necessary to learn words with their gender. There are three basic ones of those in Slovak:

Masculine/Mužský rod (male gender)

examples:

muž (a man)

strom (a tree)

pes (a dog)

And let us not forget about male names:

Andrej

Jakub

Michal

Ľudovít

Feminine/Ženský rod (female gender)

examples:

stolička (a chair)

kniha (a book)

peňaženka (a purse)

Some examples of female names:

Božena

Elena

Svetlana

Jarmila

Neutrum/Stredný rod (literally "middle" gender)

Fortunately, there are no names in the neutrum gender. Therefore, the words:

dieťa (a child)

mesto (a city)

jedlo (food)

Then we have the multiplied (pomnožné) words, which do not really have a gender and are always treated as a special kind of plural, such as:

okuliare (glasses)

dvere (a door)

nožnice (scissors)


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