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BOHEMIAN GRAMMAR

Nejprve vydal po r. 1630 spis Brána jazykův otevřena v němř sestavil mnoho tisíc slov v čelných větách s počátku kratších, pak delších, tykajících se věcí takových jež pro svou zajímavost mladě mysli vštípili se mohly.

At first he published in the year 1630 a work, The Gate of Languages Opened, in which he put together many thousand words, belonging to numerous things, at the beginning shorter, then longer, having to do with things of such a nature as on account of their attractiveness could be planted in young minds.

vy-dal, he published. See prpositions used in composition. Observe use of preposition po, with date.

otevřití, to open.

mnoho tisíc; tisíc is here the gen. plur. See p. 9.

delších, comp. of dlouhý.

tykajících, pres. part., gen. case plur., of týkati se, to concern.

věcí, gen. plur. of věc, s.f, a thing.

mohly, past tense, plur., from moc, to be able.


Než ani v tom oboru neskládaly se knihy vědecké, nýbrž na mnoze jen spisy potřebám lidu obecného určené, více překlady než spisy původní.

But no learned books were composed in that period, but for the most part only writings destined for the use of the common people, rather translations than original works.

ani, not even; as ani ho neznám, I do not even know him; ani tolik vám nedám, I shall not give you even so much.

na mnoze, for the most part.

určití, v.a., to appoint, destine.

více, rather, adv.


O vědeckém badání nebylo nikdež ani památky.

Of scientific investigation there was never a thought.

(Observe that two negatives do not make an affirmative.)