Hundred, hundreds of... – procvičování:
Porovnejte:
There are one hundred cars.
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Je tam sto aut. |
There are two hundred cars.
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Je tam dvě stě aut. |
There are hundreds of cars.
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Jsou tam stovky aut. |
Dalmatians were bred for hunting hundreds of years ago.
Neurčitý počet: |
hundreds of years ago
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Určitý počet: |
two hundred years ago
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Jednotné číslo (hundred, thousand, million...) použijeme pro určitý počet. Množné číslo + OF (hundreds of, thousands of, millions of...) použijeme pro neurčitý velký počet:
one hundred miles
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sto mil |
two hundred miles
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dvě stě mil |
three hundred miles
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tři sta mil |
hundreds of miles
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stovky mil |
S určitým počtem (= konkrétním číslem) použijeme obyčejnou základní číslovku v jednotném čísle (ten, thousand, million...):
ten dollars
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deset dolarů |
one thousand kilometres
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tisíc kilometrů |
one million people
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milion lidí |
OF v tomto případě nepoužíváme: ten of dollars, one thousand of kilometres, one million of people
Jednotné číslo (hundred, thousand, million...) použijeme i s číslovkou TWO, THREE, FOUR... a také s MANY, FEW, SEVERAL, A COUPLE OF...:
Look, I got two dozen roses from Mark!
two dozens dozen roses
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More than nine hundred soldiers were deployed in the streets.
nine hundred of soldiers
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Every year, several thousand people die of malaria.
several thousands people
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many thousands people
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a few thousands people
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Pokud vyjadřujeme neurčitý počet (= nekonkrétní číslo), použijeme slovíčka v množném čísle – TENS, DOZENS, HUNDREDS, MILLIONS, BILLIONS, TRILLIONS + OF:
tens of years
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desítky let |
thousands of animals
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tisíce zvířat |
millions of children
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miliony dětí |
Nikoliv: tens years, ten of years
Our plane was hijacked. Hundreds of lives are in danger now.
Neurčitý počet: |
hundreds of lives
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Určitý počet: |
one hundred lives
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When I was younger, I visited tens of countries around the world.
Neurčitý počet: |
tens of countries
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Určitý počet: |
ten countries
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The hacker attack leaked thousands of passwords.
Neurčitý počet: |
thousands of passwords
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Určitý počet: |
ten thousand passwords
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Používají se také různé kombinace:
Computers can process thousands and thousands of data per second.
thousands and thousands of data
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thousands upon thousands of data
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Za jednotným i množným číslem (hundred, hundreds) používáme OF + US, YOU, THEM:
Určitý počet | Neurčitý počet |
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one hundred of us
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hundreds of us
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two thousand of you
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thousands of you
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three million of them
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thousands of them
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Porovnejte:
Určitý počet | Neurčitý počet |
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one hundred of us
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hundreds of us
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one hundred houses
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hundreds of houses
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There were dozens of them on the ground.
dozens of them
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dozens of butterflies
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At least five hundred of us were waiting for the megastar.
five hundred of us
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five hundred people
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Hundred, hundreds of... – nejdůležitější body:
Určitý počet | Neurčitý počet |
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one hundred cars | hundreds of cars |
two hundred cars | |
one hundred of us | hundreds of us |
Doporučujeme si procvičit HUNDRED a HUNDREDS OF... v našem cvičení.