No. 477 in Czech
telefonu
"Telefonu" is the genitive or dative singular form of "telefon," meaning "of the phone" or "to/for the phone" in English.
In a sentence
Požádal mě o opravu telefonu.
He asked me to fix the phone.
In this sentence, 'telefonu' is used as the genitive singular form of 'telefon'. It indicates possession or association, meaning 'of the phone'.
Zapomněla jsem telefon doma.
I forgot my phone at home.
In this case, 'telefon' is used in its nominative (direct object) form, indicating the phone itself as the object of forgetting.
Mluvit o novém typu telefonu je zajímavé.
Talking about the new type of phone is interesting.
Here, 'telefonu' is again in the genitive singular form, used to indicate 'of the phone' in a descriptive context.
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