Program Spoločne pre región opäť podporí inovatívne projekty na východnom Slovensku
Spoločnosť U. S. Steel Košice a Karpatská nadácia otvorili 20....
Kunsthalle/Hala umenia pozýva
Slováci si 29. augusta tohto roku pripomínajú 70. výročie vypuknutia Slovenského národného povstania. Túto historickú...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Oversee. This comes from German (übersehen), and the equivalent from Latin is to supervise, so it means "dozerať" or "dohliadať"...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Defend, defense. This comes from the Latin verb expressing the idea of striking something away (odbiť), but the modern sense is...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Nature. This is a much trickier word than the Slovak "príroda", because the English meaning is abstract, like the idea of...
V hokejovej extralige sa začala posledná šestina základnej časti
V nedeľu 2. februára sa zápasmi 46. kola začala posledná šestina základnej časti...
Andy's Wordshop
A poll, /poul/. This is the name for the activity which involves asking a lot of people for their attitudes or reactions to a particular issue,...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Aggregate. This is another of the original type of tricky word, where the Slovak and English forms look very similar but the meanings...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Summit. The pronunciation of this word is reflected in the spelling I have seen on notices in Slovak: samit, and people may well...
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There are several pairs of tricky words in this week's extracts, and I suspect I've explained them before, so this will be a brief...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Please excuse the name of this column in this case, only I'd like to look at the difference between the Slovak word "pop" and the...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Many English words keep the same form whether they are used as nouns or as verbs, and in some cases the words can be much more tricky...
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Clothing; clothes; cloth - šatstvo; šaty in the sense of oblečenie; látka, tkanina (some cloth); handra, prachovka (a cloth)....
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In the Slovak piece on blood donors the word "šľachetnosť" is used. The literal translation in English is "nobility", but I...
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Another example of the need to know two English translations (at least) for each Slovak word or expression (and vice versa) is...
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Sports and games. Both of these involve competition, two sides (teams or individuals) competing against each other and trying to win,...
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Match. This can be a noun (a match) or a verb (to match), and the basic idea is putting two things together and seeing if they...
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English tenses with future meanings - revision. There are examples in this week's extracts of the five tenses used quite normally in...
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Moral and morale. These words have different spelling and different pronunciation: /mor l/ and /moráál/. Moral can be translated as...
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There are several ways to translate the Slovak word "podľa" into English, with a range of styles from informal through formal and...
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Civic and civil. Both of these words can be translated into Slovak as „občianske", but in different contexts and word...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
The majority of this week's extracts are about celebrations of one kind or another. The participants in the Košice Marathon can...
Andy's Wordshop
I've been asked to write something about clothes, so here you are: surely everybody knows by now that English-speaking men (especially sportsmen)...
Tricky Words in this week's OVI
Chief. This word is particularly tricky because it is so similar to "šéf" in Slovak, but it is much better to remember it in the...