No. 375 in Czech
sedm
The Czech word "sedm" means "seven" in English.
In a sentence
Včera jsem viděl sedm ptáků na stromě.
Yesterday, I saw seven birds on the tree.
The word 'sedm' is used as a numeral to indicate the quantity of birds.
Sedm dní v týdnu je tradiční koncept.
Seven days in a week is a traditional concept.
Here, 'sedm' functions as an attribute describing the number of days.
Týden začíná v pondělí a končí sedmého dne.
The week starts on Monday and ends on the seventh day.
In this context, 'sedmého' is the ordinal form 'seventh', indicating the position of the day in a sequence.
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