SOME BOHEMIAN PHRASES
Podjednu hodinu nebudeme hotovi. We shall not be ready for an hour.
Dlouho na noc pracovali. To work long into the night.
Na kvap. In haste.
Na usvitl. In the early dawn.
Na omylu jest. He is in error.
Člověk o jedné noze. A man with one leg.
Volal naň. He called after him.
Po slaných jídlech chce se piti. After salt food one wishes to drink. (Observe the impersonal chce se, a common form in the Slavonic languages.)
Po sráíce desíti ze sta. With a discount of ten per cent.
Co chceš na mne? What do you wish with me?
Po otcipříbuzný. Related on the father's side.
S někým o něco radu brati. To take counsel with some one about something.
Mně na škodu. To my disgrace.
Obdovělá královna. The widowed queen.
Hleděli svévoli. They looked only to their own interest.
Syn ze sestry Otakarovy. The son of the sister of Otakar.
Župa dana v náhradu. The district was given as a reward.
K doživotnému užívání. For his use during his life-time.
Úmluva o dvojí svadboii mezi dětmi. The arrangement con- cerning the double marriage among the children. (In dětmi we observe the preservation of the Old Slavonic instrumental case,
