Slovak Sentence Structure | Basic Slovak Lesson 6 | Slovak With Sam

Slovak has been named the 'hardest language of the world' multiple times online, but how hard is it really? Not at all! Today I'll be talking about Slovak sentence structure - how sentences are formed. By the end of this video you should be able to form Slovak sentences with the words you already know.
In these video lessons I will be teaching you the Slovak language and let me tell you, there is nothing to be afraid of! And by the end of this course you can proudly walk up to your friends or colleagues and say "I can speak the hardest language in the world!"
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[@paomaggot666]

Thanks!!! Is so hard to find good material to learn this awesome language, great explanation! :)

[@KakashiTenzouFan]

I've just followed you, as I've been watching your videos in the past week, and I saw that you uploaded a video 5 minutes ago! Such a pleasant coincidence. Thank you so much for the effort that you're putting in your videos! Or should I say ... Ďakujem! :)

[@mingkaiztao9891]

I watching your videos and i feel im interesting to your next videos and i want learn more slovakia language

[@Zesty_boy]

Do all of these rules also apply to typing or just speaking?

[@dar322sk]

I like your videos. Thank you for doing them. Question -- Do Slovaks have a word for what we call the "predicate noun" in English? In your example, Adam je student, you imply that "student" is an object, which would mean that, as a direct object, it would be in the objective (accusative) case (studenta). But student is actually in the nominative case (or it can also be in the instrumental form as you know). Dakujem.

[@memoriesadrift]

Hi, awesome question. I'm not sure of the exact reason for this, however my gut tells me the answer is in how this sentence is built syntactically. Adam (subject) je student (predicate) is how this would be divided in Slovak, the whole predicate being "byt student", or more generally "byt X". This compound predicate is then conjugated, with the noun unchanged when the verb changes tense. I hope this helped!

[@dar322sk]

@@memoriesadrift I just found this on a grammar (English) web site -- "A verb is a word class. And subject and predicate are the two main parts of a sentence. The predicate consists of a verb and its object(s) or when the verb is a linking verb as to be of verb and complement." In English, a linking verb like "to be" and its various forms (am, are is ... ) is intransitive. It does not take a direct object, but instead uses a predicate noun or adjective (same case as the sentence subject, i.e., nominative). This "situation" (having predicate nouns and adjectives in the same case ) is the same in Slovak, but I'm not sure if words exist in Slovak that identify as we do in English the words for "predicate noun" and "predicate adjective."

[@Loonypapa]

I thought inflection for questions goes down, not up. Did I learn that wrong?