Soupeř získal jeden bod.

Získat is the dictionary form, meaning to gain / to obtain.

Získal is the past tense form, so the sentence means gained / got / scored.

In Czech, past tense is built from the verb stem plus a form that agrees with the subject:

• získal = he gained / it gained (masculine)
• získala = she gained
• získali = they gained (masculine animate or mixed group)

Because soupeř is a masculine animate singular noun, získal is the correct form.

Soupeř is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence — the one doing the action.

Here:

• Soupeř = the opponent
• získal = gained/scored
• jeden bod = one point

So soupeř is the person who gained the point, which is why it stays in the nominative.

It is in the accusative case, because it is the direct object — the thing that was gained.

The verb získat normally takes an object in the accusative:

• získat bod = to gain a point
• získat peníze = to get money
• získat zkušenosti = to gain experience

In this sentence:

• jeden is accusative singular
• bod is also accusative singular

For this noun phrase, the forms happen to look very similar to the nominative.

Because bod is a masculine inanimate singular noun, and in the accusative singular, masculine inanimate nouns usually look the same as in the nominative.

So:

• nominative: jeden bod
• accusative: jeden bod

That is why nothing visibly changes here.

Compare that with a masculine animate noun, where the accusative often looks different:

• nominative: jeden soupeř
• accusative: jednoho soupeře

So the object bod keeps the simpler-looking form because it is inanimate.

Czech has no articles, so it does not have separate words like a, an, or the.

That means Soupeř získal jeden bod can be translated depending on context as:

• The opponent scored one point
• An opponent scored one point
• The opponent gained one point

Czech relies on context, word order, and sometimes intonation instead of articles.

Yes. Soupeř získal bod is perfectly natural and often means The opponent scored a point.

Adding jeden makes the number one more explicit:

• Soupeř získal bod = The opponent scored a point
• Soupeř získal jeden bod = The opponent scored one point

So jeden may be used:

• when the exact number matters
• for emphasis
• for contrast, for example: Soupeř získal jeden bod, ne dva. = The opponent got one point, not two.

Not specifically. Získat is a broader verb meaning to gain, obtain, get, or acquire.

In the context of points, it can naturally be translated as score:

• získat bod = to score/gain a point

But the same verb is also used in many other contexts:

• získat práci = to get a job
• získat zkušenosti = to gain experience
• získat čas = to gain time

So in this sentence, the sports-style translation scored one point is natural, but the core meaning of the verb is wider.

A rough pronunciation is:

• sou- sounds like so in soul
• -peř has the famous Czech sound ř

The letter ř is one of the hardest Czech sounds for English speakers. It is something like a mix between r and zh (the sound in measure), but there is no exact English equivalent.

A very rough guide:

• soupeř ≈ SOH-pe(rzh)

If you cannot say ř yet, many learners begin with something closer to r or zh, and improve gradually.

Yes, Czech word order is more flexible than English, because case endings show grammatical roles.

The neutral order here is:

• Soupeř získal jeden bod.

But other orders are possible for emphasis:

• Jeden bod získal soupeř.
• Získal soupeř jeden bod? = Did the opponent score one point?

The most natural choice depends on what is new information and what is already known from context. For a simple statement, Soupeř získal jeden bod is the most straightforward.

That -l is part of the Czech past tense formation.

For many verbs, the past tense uses a form based on the l-participle:

• dělat → dělal = did
• mít → měl = had
• získat → získal = gained

Then Czech normally also uses forms of to be, although in the 3rd person they are not expressed:

• já jsem získal = I gained
• ty jsi získal = you gained
• on získal = he gained

So in the sentence Soupeř získal jeden bod, the 3rd person singular is used, and there is no separate word for is/was.

Grammatically, soupeř is a masculine animate noun. Very often it refers to a male opponent, but grammatically Czech still treats the noun itself as masculine.

Its forms follow masculine animate patterns, for example:

• nominative: soupeř
• genitive: soupeře
• accusative: soupeře

If you specifically wanted a feminine form, Czech has soupeřka for a female opponent.

So the verb form získal matches the grammatical gender of soupeř.

Yes, bod is a very common word. It can mean:

• point in sports or scoring
• point on a list
• point/dot in some contexts

Useful forms:

• singular: bod
• plural: body

Examples:

• jeden bod = one point
• dva body = two points
• pět bodů = five points

So if the sentence changed, you might get:

• Soupeř získal dva body. = The opponent scored two points.
• Soupeř získal pět bodů. = The opponent scored five points.