Nájemce napsal pronajímateli.

to write

Breakdown of Nájemce napsal pronajímateli.

• nájemce: the tenant
• pronajímatel: the landlord

Questions & Answers about Nájemce napsal pronajímateli.

Why is nájemce the subject here, and what case is it in?

Nájemce is in the nominative singular, which is the case normally used for the subject of the sentence.

So in Nájemce napsal pronajímateli, nájemce is the person who performed the action of writing.

A useful extra point: even though nájemce ends in -e, it is still a masculine animate noun. Czech gender is not determined only by the ending.

Why is it pronajímateli and not pronajímatel?

Because pronajímateli is the dative singular form of pronajímatel.

The verb napsat often works with:

• the writer in the nominative
• the message as a direct object, if one is mentioned
• the recipient in the dative

So Czech says, effectively, wrote to the landlord by putting landlord into the dative:

• pronajímatel = landlord
• pronajímateli = to the landlord

Does pronajímateli mean to the landlord?