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Děkuji is among the first words that Czech learners tend to pick up. After all, we all want to be polite! Děkovat means ‘to thank’, and it has an associated noun, dík ‘thanks’.
At a very early point in Czech’s history, these words would have contained an extra nasal sound.
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