Cena roste každý rok.

The price rises every year.

Breakdown of Cena roste každý rok.

• každý: every
• rok: the year
• cena: the price
• růst: to grow

Questions & Answers about Cena roste každý rok.

What does each word do in Cena roste každý rok?

• Cena = price
• roste = grows / rises / increases
• každý rok = every year

So grammatically:

• Cena is the subject.
• roste is the verb.
• každý rok is a time expression meaning every year.

Why is it roste and not something like rostí or rosta?

Roste is the correct 3rd person singular present-tense form of the verb růst (to grow / to rise).

Since cena is a singular noun and means the price, Czech uses the he/she/it form of the verb:

• já rostu = I grow
• ty rosteš = you grow
• on / ona / ono roste = he / she / it grows

Here, cena is grammatically feminine singular, so it takes roste.

Why is cena in this form?

Because cena is the subject of the sentence, it is in the nominative case.

The basic dictionary form is:

• cena = price

In this sentence, the price is the thing that is rising, so nominative is exactly what you expect.

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