Breakdown of Pojišťovna má vlastní formulář.
mít
to have
formulář
the form
pojišťovna
the insurance company
vlastní
one's own
Questions & Answers about Pojišťovna má vlastní formulář.
Why is pojišťovna translated as the insurance company or an insurance company even though there is no word for the or a?
Czech has no articles, so nouns usually appear without a word equivalent to the or a/an.
So pojišťovna can mean:
- an insurance company
- the insurance company
Which one is meant depends on the context.
That is completely normal in Czech:
- Pojišťovna má vlastní formulář. = The insurance company has its own form / An insurance company has its own form
What gender is pojišťovna?
Pojišťovna is a feminine noun.
You can often recognize many feminine nouns by the ending -a, though not all nouns ending in -a are feminine. Here it is feminine and follows a common feminine pattern.
That matters for agreement in other sentences, for example with adjectives or past tense forms:
- Pojišťovna byla zavřená. = The insurance company was closed.
What case is pojišťovna here?