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/Tato informace je důležitá.

Tato informace je důležitá.

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Tato informace je důležitá.

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Questions & Answers about Tato informace je důležitá.

Why is it tato informace and not tento informace or ten informace?

Because informace is a feminine singular noun, and the demonstrative this has to agree with it.

Czech this changes by gender:

tento = masculine
tato = feminine
toto = neuter

So:

tato informace = this information
tento dokument = this document
toto město = this town

The shorter form ten / ta / to usually means that, though in everyday speech it can sometimes overlap with this/that depending on context.

What kind of word is tato?

Tato is a demonstrative pronoun/determiner. In this sentence, it works like this in English and directly modifies the noun informace.

It must match the noun in:

gender
number
case

Here it is:

feminine
singular
nominative

because informace is the subject of the sentence.

Why does end in ?

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důležitá

-á

Because důležitá is an adjective, and it must agree with informace.

Since informace is:

feminine
singular
nominative

the adjective also takes the feminine singular nominative ending -á.

Compare:

důležitý dokument = important document (masculine)
důležitá informace = important information (feminine)
důležité město = important town/city (neuter)

So the ending is not random; it shows grammatical agreement.

What case is informace in here?

It is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence.

In Tato informace je důležitá, the thing being described is informace, so it appears in nominative.

The adjective and demonstrative match that:

tato = feminine singular nominative
informace = nominative singular
důležitá = feminine singular nominative

Why is je included? Doesn’t Czech sometimes leave out to be?

Here je is the normal present-tense form of být (to be), meaning is.

So the structure is:

Tato informace = subject
je = is
důležitá = important

In standard full sentences, je is perfectly normal and expected.

Czech can sometimes omit forms of to be in:

headlines
notes
very compressed styles
some colloquial expressions

But in an ordinary sentence like this, je is the standard choice.

Could I also say Tahle informace je důležitá?

Yes. Tahle informace je důležitá is very common in everyday spoken Czech.

The difference is mainly style:

tato informace = more neutral, standard, slightly more formal or written
tahle informace = more colloquial, everyday spoken Czech

Both mean basically the same thing.

Could the word order be changed?

Yes. Czech word order is more flexible than English word order because endings show grammatical relationships.

The neutral order here is:

Tato informace je důležitá.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

Důležitá je tato informace. = It is this information that is important.
Tato informace důležitá je. = possible, but marked/emphatic

So while the original sentence is the most natural neutral version, other orders can be used to shift focus.

Why is there no word for the or a?

Because Czech does not have articles like English the and a/an.

So a noun like informace can mean:

information
the information
in some contexts something close to an item of information

The exact meaning comes from context, word order, and demonstratives like tato.

Here, tato already makes it specific, so tato informace clearly means this information.

Is informace singular or plural? It looks like it could be either.

In this sentence it is singular.

You can tell from tato, which is feminine singular nominative. If it were plural, you would expect:

tyto informace = these pieces of information / these items of information

So:

tato informace je důležitá = this information is important
tyto informace jsou důležité = these pieces of information are important

This can be confusing because some Czech noun forms look the same in singular and plural, but agreement usually makes it clear.

How is důležitá pronounced, especially the letters with marks?

A simple pronunciation guide is:

dů sounds roughly like doo
le like leh
ži like zhi in measure
tá like taa, with a long a

So approximately: doo-leh-zhi-taa

A few useful points:

ů is pronounced like a long ú sound, basically oo
ž sounds like the s in measure
á is a long vowel

The stress in Czech is normally on the first syllable:

DŮ-le-ži-tá

Could I say Tohle je důležitá informace instead?

Yes, and that is also very natural, but the structure is slightly different.

Tato informace je důležitá. = This information is important.
Tohle je důležitá informace. = This is important information.

The first sentence directly identifies this information as the subject. The second starts with this as a stand-alone pronoun (tohle) and then says what it is.

Both are correct, but they are not exactly the same grammatical structure.

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