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Czech words with long á

Czech á is a long /aː/ — same vowel as a, held twice as long. Length is meaningful in Czech.

Vowel length is phonemic in Czech: pas (passport) ≠ pás (belt). The diacritic (čárka) marks the long version. English speakers often clip long vowels to short, which changes meanings unintentionally.

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