NumType: numeral type
| Values: | Card | Frac | Mult | Ord | Sets |
Czech has a complex system of numerals. For example, in the school grammar of Czech, the main part of speech is “numeral”, it includes almost everything where counting is involved and there are various subtypes. It also includes interrogative, relative, indefinite and demonstrative quantifiers (words like kolik “how many”, tolik “so many”, několik “several”), so at the same time we may have a non-empty value of PronType.
From the syntactic point of view, some numtypes behave like adjectives
and some behave like adverbs. We tag them cs-pos/ADJ and
cs-pos/ADV respectively. Thus the NumType feature applies to
several different parts of speech:
- cs-pos/NUM: cardinal numerals
- cs-pos/DET: quantifiers
- cs-pos/ADJ: adjectival ordinal and some generic numerals
- cs-pos/ADV: adverbial (e.g. ordinal and multiplicative) numerals
Card: cardinal number or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
Examples
- jeden, dva, tři “one, two, three”
- kolik “how many”
- několik “several”, mnoho “many”, málo “few”
- tolik “so many”
- čtvero, patero, desatero (specific forms of four, five, ten; they are morphologically, syntactically and stylistically distinct from the default forms čtyři, pět, deset)
Ord: ordinal number or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
This is a subtype of adjective or adverb.
Examples
Adjectival:
- první “first”; druhý “second”, třetí “third”
- kolikátý lit. how manieth “which rank”
- několikátý “some rank”
- tolikátý “this/that rank”
Adverbial:
- poprvé “for the first time”; podruhé “for the second time”; potřetí “for the third time”
- pokolikáté “for which time”
- poněkolikáté “for x-th time”
- potolikáté “it has been so many times”
Mult: multiplicative numeral or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
This is subtype of adjective or adverb.
Examples
- dvojí, trojí, čtverý (twofold, threefold, fourfold; these are morphologically and syntactically adjectives)
- jednou “once”; dvakrát “twice”; třikrát “three times”
- kolikrát “how many times”
- několikrát “several times”
- tolikrát “so many times”
Frac: fraction
This is a subtype of cardinal numbers. It may denote a fraction or just the denominator of the fraction.
Examples
- půl / polovina “half”; třetina “one third”; čtvrt / čtvrtina “quarter”
Sets: number of sets of things; collective numeral
Morphologically distinct class of numerals used to count sets of things, or nouns that are pluralia tantum.
Examples
- dvoje / troje boty “two / three [pairs of] shoes”; as opposed to normal cardinal numbers: dvě / tři boty “two / three shoes”
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