Reading and producing academic noun-heavy Czech, and converting between nominal and verbal style
I can switch between nominal and verbal style and tame genitive chains in academic Czech.
Observe estes exemplos. Você consegue identificar o padrão gramatical?
Cílem projektu je zvýšení dostupnosti bydlení pro mladé rodiny.
The goal of the project is to increase housing availability for young families.
Jinými slovy: chceme, aby si mladé rodiny snáz našly bydlení.
In other words: we want young families to find housing more easily.
Preste atenção às partes destacadas. O que elas têm em comum?
Open any Czech grant application, ministry press release or university regulation and you will find sentences built almost entirely of nouns: Cílem projektu je zvýšení dostupnosti bydlení pro mladé rodiny. This nominal style is compact and impersonal, and Czech readers expect it in formal genres. It is also hard to read. At C1 you need both directions: to produce it where the genre demands it, and to unwind it when you want to be understood.
| Nominal | Verbal | English |
|---|---|---|
| za účelem zvýšení informovanosti | aby se lidé víc dozvěděli | in order to raise awareness |
| v případě nedodržení lhůty | když lhůtu nedodržíte | if the deadline is not met |
| po obdržení platby | jakmile zaplatíte | upon receipt of payment |
| z důvodu rekonstrukce trati | protože se opravuje trať | due to track reconstruction |
| provedení kontroly kvality výroby | zkontrolovat, jak kvalitně se vyrábí | carrying out a production quality check |
The grant sentence above then becomes: Chceme, aby si mladé rodiny snáz našly bydlení. Same content, half the effort for the reader.
Nominal style belongs in headings, forms, contracts, abstracts and the voice of institutions: the familiar station announcement z provozních důvodů is a model of it. Verbal style belongs in anything a person reads to understand: an e-mail to a client, an article, instructions. A chain of three or more genitives (návrh změny systému řízení) is your signal to rewrite.
Aplique esta gramática nos exercícios do curso C1
Exercícios de práticaCílem projektu je zvýšení dostupnosti bydlení pro mladé rodiny.
The goal of the project is to increase housing availability for young families.
Typical nominal formulation of a grant application.
Jinými slovy: chceme, aby si mladé rodiny snáz našly bydlení.
In other words: we want young families to find housing more easily.
The same content unwound into verbal style.
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Aplique esta gramática nos exercícios do curso C1