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B2 Czech listening practice · Czech · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
What is 'pětka' in Czech school grades?
Pětka is a five. In Czech schools, grades run 1 to 5 with 1 being the best, so a pětka is the failing mark, the one parents dread on a report card. Collect enough and you propadneš (get held back). Diminutives are universal in Czech school talk: jednička for a top mark, pětka for the worst.
In this PSA, Jirka piles up pětky at a school that can’t adapt to him: « Ať se učím, jak chci, stejně dostanu pětku » (no matter how hard I study, I still get a pětka). His mum transfers him to a different school where he thrives and ends up sent to competitions. The grade was the symptom.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸On Czech school comedies and dramas like Marečku, podejte mi pero! and Obecná škola, replayed on ČT1 where grades drive the plot
- ▸In Czech parenting and education coverage on Aktuálně, Seznam Zprávy, and EDUin when reformers push for individualized teaching
- ▸On Czech current-affairs shows like 168 hodin and Otázky Václava Moravce on ČT24 when school-reform stories come up
- ▸In Czech home conversation at konec pololetí (end of term) and on vysvědčení (report-card day), when parents see the grades