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Possibly incorrect grammar case used for Jiří #74

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tukusejssirs opened this issue Oct 21, 2020 · 4 comments
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Possibly incorrect grammar case used for Jiří #74

tukusejssirs opened this issue Oct 21, 2020 · 4 comments

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@tukusejssirs
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According to sklonuj.cz, the genitive singular of Jiří is Jiřího. I don’t say that website is absolutely correct, but it looks like it is correct.

The relevant line is located in czech-cs.txt (L63).

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igneus commented Oct 21, 2020

No. https://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=Ji%C5%99%C3%AD

"Čí je to kolo?" "Jiřího." ("regular" genitive)
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"svátek svatého Jiří" (uninflected genitive used in some specific contexts - "svátek svatého Jiřího")

@igneus igneus closed this as completed Oct 21, 2020
@tukusejssirs
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Thanks for the explanation. Sorry for reporting non-existing issues.

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igneus commented Oct 21, 2020

Ouch, I left the sentence in parentheses unfinished: I wanted to say that "svátek svatého Jiřího" (the regular genitive in the particular context) would sound very strange, signalling that the speaker is either non-native or not familiar with this layer of the language (probably lacks education above the elementary level, has not read much etc.).

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igneus commented Jul 16, 2022

Fun fact: the form "Jiřího" is used in the calendar of Czech Old Catholic Church. The archaic genitive "svatého Jiří" is usually tied to this very phrase and since the calendar does not use the title "Saint", it doesn't use the name's archaic genitive either.

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