šestery
Czech
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| Cardinal: šest Ordinal: šestý Adverbial: šestkrát Repetition adjective: šestinásobný Collective: šestery Substantivised collective: šestero Specific: šesterý Fractional: šestina | ||
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Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech šester, from Proto-Slavic *šestero. Doublet of šesterý and šestero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃɛstɛrɪ]
Numeral
šestery
- (collective) six, six groups of, six sets of
- šestery modré kalhoty ― six blue pants
- šestera stará kamna ― six old stoves
- šestery silné ponožky ― six pairs of thick socks
- šestero teplé prádlo ― six sets of warm clothes
Usage notes
- Some dictionaries consider šestery and šesterý to be interchangable in both meanings.
- This word can be used with pluralia tantum to make them countable. If used with other nouns, it means groups or pairs. It can also be used with singular collective nouns (normally only in neuter) which do not have plural forms. The masculine singular and animate plural forms are no longer used.
Declension
| singular | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| animate | inanimate | |||
| nominative | šester1 | šestera1 | šestero | |
| genitive | šesterého | šesteré1 | šesterého | |
| dative | šesterému | šesteré1 | šesterému | |
| accusative | šesterého | šester1 | šesteru1 | šestero |
| locative | šesterém | šesteré1 | šesterém | |
| instrumental | šesterým | šesterou1 | šesterým | |
| plural | ||||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| animate | inanimate | |||
| nominative | šesteři1 | šestery | šestera | |
| genitive | šesterých | |||
| dative | šesterým | |||
| accusative | šestery | šestera | ||
| locative | šesterých | |||
| instrumental | šesterými, šesterýma | |||
1Obsolete.
See also
- (collective numbers from two to ten) dvoje, troje, čtvery, patery, šestery, sedmery, osmery, devatery, desatery
- šestero
- šesterý
Further reading
- “šestery”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026