patery

Czech

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    Cardinal: pět
    Ordinal: pátý
    Adverbial: pětkrát
    Repetition adjective: pětinásobný
    Collective: patery
    Substantivised collective: patero
    Specific: paterý
    Fractional: pětina
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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech pater, from Proto-Slavic *pętero. Doublet of paterý and patero.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpatɛrɪ]

Numeral

patery

  1. (collective) five, five groups of, five sets of
    patery modré kalhoty ― five blue pants
    patera stará kamna ― five old stoves
    patery silné ponožky ― five pairs of thick socks
    patero teplé prádlo ― five sets of warm clothes

Usage notes

  • Some dictionaries consider patery and paterý 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

Declension of pater (irregular)
singular
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative pater1 patera1 patero
genitive paterého pateré1 paterého
dative paterému pateré1 paterému
accusative paterého pater1 pateru1 patero
locative paterém pateré1 paterém
instrumental paterým paterou1 paterým
plural
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative pateři1 patery patera
genitive paterých
dative paterým
accusative patery patera
locative paterých
instrumental paterými, paterýma

1Obsolete.

See also

Further reading

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