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liturgical calendar library (Roman Catholic, post-Vatican II)
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Possibly incorrect grammar case used for `Jiří` #74

Closed tukusejssirs closed 3 years ago

tukusejssirs commented 3 years ago

According to sklonuj.cz, the genitive singular of Jiří is Jiřího. I don’t say that website is absolutely correct, but it looks like it is correct.

The relevant line is located in czech-cs.txt (L63).

igneus commented 3 years ago

No. https://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=Ji%C5%99%C3%AD

"Čí je to kolo?" "Jiřího." ("regular" genitive) but "svátek svatého Jiří" (uninflected genitive used in some specific contexts - "svátek svatého Jiřího")

tukusejssirs commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. Sorry for reporting non-existing issues.

igneus commented 3 years ago

Ouch, I left the sentence in parentheses unfinished: I wanted to say that "svátek svatého Jiřího" (the regular genitive in the particular context) would sound very strange, signalling that the speaker is either non-native or not familiar with this layer of the language (probably lacks education above the elementary level, has not read much etc.).

igneus commented 2 years ago

Fun fact: the form "Jiřího" is used in the calendar of Czech Old Catholic Church. The archaic genitive "svatého Jiří" is usually tied to this very phrase and since the calendar does not use the title "Saint", it doesn't use the name's archaic genitive either.