Exercise 6
Read the following text and use tearma.ie to find equivalents for the highlighted expressions.
The Czech Republic (Czech: Česká republika) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country has borders with Poland to the north, Germany to the northwest and west, Austria to the south, and Slovakia to the east. Historic Prague (Czech: Praha), a major tourist attraction, is its capital and largest city. Other major cities include Brno, Ostrava, Zlín, Plzeň, Pardubice, Hradec Králové, České Budějovice, Liberec, Olomouc, and Ústí nad Labem. The country is composed of two entire c, Bohemia and Moravia, parts of Silesia and small sections of historic Lower Austria.
(Source: Wikipedia)
How did you do? Click each expression below to reveal the answer.
Czech Republic
You should have come up with Poblacht bain3 na Seice ¶. Note the grammatical annotations: the word Poblacht is a feminine noun of the third declension (bain3) and the whole term is a proper noun, denoted by the symbol ¶.
landlocked
You should have come up with talamhiata a3. This tells us that the word is an adjective of the third declension.
borders
If you searched for borders you should have been redirected to the singular form of the noun under Similar terms: border, and come up with teorainn bain5. This tells us that the word is a feminine noun of the fifth declension. Note the inflected forms given (gu: teorann, ai: teorainneacha, gi: teorainneacha).
Note that the search engine also searches for the word border as a verb, denoted by the abbreviation v (border v, cuir br ciumhais ar le faomhadh/for approval). Of course it is border as a noun that we wanted from this particular search.
Praha
You should have come up with Praha ¶. The symbol ¶ indicates that this is a proper noun.
tourist attraction
You should have come up with ní fir4 is díol spéise do thurasóirí. Note in the case of multi-word terms, the grammatical notation refers to part of the term rather than to the whole term. For example, in this case the note fir4 refers only to the word ní. Note that when you place the cursor over the grammatical note, only ní is highlighted. Similarly with the English term, tourist attraction s, although the grammatical note appears at the end of the term, it refers only to the last word (attraction), which is clear when the word is highlighted as the cursor is placed over the grammatical note.