Question: Why aren't some sound clusters used in modern Czech?
Answer: no longer exist

Question: How did old Czech allow some complex consonant clusters to be pronounced?
Answer: all at once

Question: What type of phenomenon is Havlik's law?
Answer: phonological

Question: Which "yer"s were vocalized as vowels?
Answer: every odd-numbered

Question: What was Czech civilization called back in the day?
Answer: Bohemia

Question: What Holy Roman Emperor expedited the growth of Bohemia in the 14th century?
Answer: Charles IV

Question: When was Charles University founded in Prague?
Answer: 1348

Question: Who contributed heavily to the effort to standardize Czech orthography?
Answer: Jan Hus

Question: What did Jan Hus advocate for among the Czech commoners?
Answer: widespread literacy

Question: How many years as Czech continued to evolve and gain in regional importance?
Answer: hundreds

Question: When was the Kralice Bible published?
Answer: late sixteenth century

Question: What did the publication of the Kralice Bible spawn?
Answer: widespread nationalism

Question: In what war were the Czechs defeated at the Battle of White Mountain?
Answer: Thirty Years' War

Question: What language became dominant in Bohemia after the Czech's defeat?
Answer: German

Question: When do linguists agree modern Czech originated?
Answer: the eighteenth century

Question: What had Czech developed by the 18th century?
Answer: literary tradition

Question: Journals from the 18th century have no substantial differences from what?
Answer: modern standard Czech

Question: How much difficulty do contemporary Czechs have in understanding material from the 18th century?
Answer: little

Question: What did the Czech language abandon which survives in Slovak?
Answer: a distinction between phonemic /l/ and /ʎ/

Question: What did the Czechs as a people gain during the mid-18th century?
Answer: widespread national pride

Question: What inspired the Czech's national pride?
Answer: Age of Enlightenment a half-century earlier

Question: What did Czech historians emphasize about their countrymen?
Answer: accomplishments

Question: What did Czech philologists advocate?
Answer: the return of the language to high culture

Question: What is the period during the mid-eighteenth century also remembered as?
Answer: Czech National Revival

Question: What was the professions of Joseph Dobrovský?
Answer: linguist and historian

Question: What didn't Dobrovský think Czech had a chance of returning as?
Answer: a major language

Question: What year did Joseph Dobrovský release a German-language grammar of Old Czech?
Answer: 1809

Question: What did Josef Jungmann advocate for?
Answer: a Czech linguistic revival

Question: Who disagree about whether the revivalists were motivated by nationalism or if they considered contemporary spoken Czech unsuitable for formal use?
Answer: Modern scholars

Question: How long has the Czech Republic been a member of the European Union?
Answer: since 2004

Question: What distinction does Czech have in Slovakia?
Answer: foreign language most often used

Question: Who collected data on language knowledge in Europe for the 2012 European Day of Languages?
Answer: Jonathan van Parys

Question: Of the five countries with the greatest use of Czech, which country had the lowest percent of use?
Answer: Germany

Question: Czechs immigrated from Europe to the U.S. primary from 1848 to when?
Answer: 1914

Question: What kind of language is Czech in U.S. schools?
Answer: a Less Commonly Taught Language

Question: What states have large communities of Czech Americans?
Answer: Texas, Nebraska and Wisconsin

Question: What is the most commonly spoken non-English language at homes nationwide in the U.S.?
Answer: Spanish

Question: How many Americans spoke Czech as their first language as of 2009?
Answer: 70,500

Question: How many regional dialects does Czech have?
Answer: several

Question: Where are dialects of Czech commonly found?
Answer: rural areas

Question: What is dialect use associated with and thus stigmatized because of?
Answer: lower class

Question: What kind of scholarly interest has Czech received?
Answer: considerable

Question: What Czech dialect is gaining ground in journalism and the mass media?
Answer: Common

Question: What are the dialects spoken in Moravia and Silesia known as?
Answer: Moravian

Question: Where could citizens register "Bohemian-Moravian-Slovak' as being their spoken language?
Answer: the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Question: Which of the Czech dialects is the only one distinguished in the nationwide surveys by the Czech Statistical Office?
Answer: Moravian

Question: How many Czechs spoke Moravian as their first language as of 2011?
Answer: 62,908

Question: How many Czechs spoke both Moravian and standard Czech as first languages in 2011?
Answer: 45,561

Question: How many basic vowel phonemes does Czech contain?
Answer: ten

Question: Where are three additional vowel phonemes found in Czech?
Answer: loanwords

Question: What are vowel sounds never reduced to when unstressed?
Answer: schwa sounds

Question: What is stress unrelated to in Czech?
Answer: vowel length

Question: What a few exceptions where is the primary word stress in Czech?
Answer: first syllable

Question: In Czech, what are loanwords from other languages associated with?
Answer: high culture

Question: What word roots in the 19th century were rejected in favor of words with more common Slavic roots?
Answer: Greek and Latin

Question: How does one say the word "music" in Czech?
Answer: hudba

Question: What Czech word did the English "robot" derive from?
Answer: robota

Question: What is the meaning of the Czech word "robota"?
Answer: labor

Question: Czech's word order is flexible because it uses what to convey word function in a sentence?
Answer: grammatical case

Question: In Czech an intransitive sentence may consist of only what?
Answer: a verb

Question: What is encoded about a subject in verbs in Czech?
Answer: information

Question: What is a hard to pronounce and remember term meaning primarily auxiliary verbs and pronouns?
Answer: Enclitics

Question: Where must enclitics appear in a sentence?
Answer: second syntactic slot

Question: What is the sentence structure of Czech syntax?
Answer: subject–verb–object

Question: Because word order is flexible in Czech, what does it tend to actually be used for?
Answer: topicalization and focus

Question: What kind of passive construction does Czech have?
Answer: periphrastic

Question: What happens to the subject and object to produce a passive voice in Czech?
Answer: inverted

Question: What case is the grammatical object of a verb?
Answer: accusative

Question: How many grammatical cases can nouns and adjectives be declined into in Czech?
Answer: seven

Question: When are nouns in Czech inflected?
Answer: to indicate their use in a sentence

Question: How does Czech mark subject nouns?
Answer: with nominative case

Question: What nouns does Czech use the accusative case to mark?
Answer: object

Question: What must an adjective's case agree with in Czech?
Answer: the noun it describes

Question: How many genders does Czech distinguish?
Answer: three

Question: What categories is the masculine gender in Czech divided into?
Answer: animate and inanimate

Question: What do Czech adjectives agree with in the nouns they modify?
Answer: gender and animacy

Question: What does gender also affect in Czech?
Answer: past-tense verb endings

Question: What is the main effect of gender in Czech?
Answer: difference in noun and adjective declension

Question: What are inflected for number in Czech?
Answer: Nouns

Question: What are the cardinal numbers one through four in Czech allowed to take?
Answer: any case

Question: What case are numbers over five in?
Answer: genitive

Question: When is the genitive case used?
Answer: when the entire expression is in nominative or accusative case