Dnes jsme sklidili úrodu, což je dobrá zpráva.

to be

Breakdown of Dnes jsme sklidili úrodu, což je dobrá zpráva.

• dobrý: good
• dnes: today
• zpráva: the news

Questions & Answers about Dnes jsme sklidili úrodu, což je dobrá zpráva.

Why is it jsme sklidili and not just one past-tense verb?

In Czech, the past tense is usually made with:

• the past participle of the main verb
• plus a short form of to be

So jsme sklidili means literally something like we have harvested / we harvested.

Here:

• jsme = we are / we have auxiliary used for past tense
• sklidili = past participle of sklidit (to harvest, to gather in)

This is the normal Czech way to say we harvested.

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Why does sklidili end in -i?

The ending -i shows that the subject is we and that the group is masculine animate or mixed, or it can sometimes be used in standard teaching examples as the default plural form learners first notice.

More broadly, Czech past participles change according to gender and number:

• sklidil = he harvested
• sklidila = she harvested
• sklidilo = it harvested
• sklidili = they/we harvested (masculine animate or mixed group)
• sklidily = they/we harvested (non-masculine animate group)

In this sentence, sklidili tells you the speaker is part of a plural subject: we.

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