🇩🇪 → 🇨🇿
How easy is Czech for German speakers?
Going from German to Czech (Čeština) has a composite linguistic distance of 59% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
59% distance
FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
18%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
64%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
11%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin → Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇩🇪 German
Die Universität hat eine moderne Bibliothek und ein wissenschaftliches Zentrum.
🇨🇿 Czech
Univerzita má moderní knihovnu a vědecké centrum.
🇩🇪 German
Der Student studiert Philosophie und Geschichte an der Universität.
🇨🇿 Czech
Student studuje filozofii a historii na univerzitě.
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