Kytarista hraje moc dobře.

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Breakdown of Kytarista hraje moc dobře.

• hrát: to play
• moc: very
• kytarista: the guitarist

Questions & Answers about Kytarista hraje moc dobře.

Why is it kytarista and not a word built directly from kytara?

Kytarista means guitarist or guitar player. It is a noun for a person, like English pianist, violinist, etc.

• kytara = guitar
• kytarista = guitarist

Czech often uses endings like -ista for professions, roles, or people associated with something.

What case is kytarista in here?

It is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence — the person doing the action.

So in:

Kytarista hraje moc dobře.

the guitarist is the one who plays, so kytarista is nominative.

Also, kytarista is a masculine animate noun.

Why is the verb hraje?

Hraje is the 3rd person singular present tense of hrát (to play).

It matches the subject kytarista, which is singular:

• já hraju / hraji = I play
• ty hraješ = you play
• on / ona hraje = he / she plays
• my hrajeme = we play
• vy hrajete = you play
• oni hrají / hrajou = they play

Because kytarista = he / the guitarist in a grammatical sense, Czech uses hraje.