Tento víkend chci být doma s rodinou.

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Breakdown of Tento víkend chci být doma s rodinou.

• být: to be
• rodina: the family
• chtít: to want

Questions & Answers about Tento víkend chci být doma s rodinou.

Why does the sentence start with Tento víkend? Can I say Chci být doma tento víkend instead?

Both word orders are correct:

• Tento víkend chci být doma s rodinou.
• Chci být doma s rodinou tento víkend.

Czech word order is flexible. The most neutral pattern is often:

Time – Verb – Place – Other information

So starting with Tento víkend (This weekend) is very natural when you want to set the time frame first.

Putting tento víkend at the end (Chci být doma s rodinou tento víkend) is also fine and can sound slightly more like you’re adding the time as extra information, but it’s not a big difference here.

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Why is it Tento víkend and not something like v tomto víkendu?

Czech often uses a bare accusative for time expressions:

• Tento víkend = this weekend (as a time period)
• Příští týden = next week
• Každý den = every day

The preposition v (in) is not needed here.

You can say o víkendu (at the weekend / on the weekend), but that is more general and usually without ten/tento:

• O víkendu chci být doma. = On/at the weekend I want to be at home.
• Tento víkend chci být doma. = This particular weekend I want to be at home.

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