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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech dlúho. By surface analysis, dlouhý + -o. Compare Polish długo and Russian до́лго (dólgo).
Pronunciation
Adverb
dlouho (comparative déle, superlative nejdéle)
- Long, a long time
- Long, a particular amount of time (determined in the sentence)
- Jak dlouho to bude trvat? ― How long will it last?
- Nebudu tam tak dlouho. ― I won't be there that long.
Further reading
- “dlouho”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “dlouho”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “dlouho”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
- František Št. Kott (1890) “dlouho, dlouze”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: František Šimáček, page 60
- František Št. Kott (1878) “dlouho”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: Josef Kolář, page 246
- František Št. Kott (1878) “déle”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: Josef Kolář, page 222