The Hateful Eight

18:41 Aug 16, 2015
Czech to English translations [Non-PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Czech term or phrase: The Hateful Eight
This movie title seems to have been translated into Czech
in two ways

1. První trailer na The Hateful Eight - Osm hrozných
2. Hrozný Osmi (2015)

I do not understand the grammar behind no. 2
Hrozný is a singular masculine adjective in the nominative case
Osmi is the oblique form of the numeral osm.
Could some native speaker please explain this to me?
Barry Appleby
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:20


Summary of answers provided
3hrozné osmičky
Lida Vodickova


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hrozné osmičky


Explanation:
I think they mean to say this:
hrozný is meant here as a non standard form of a word hrozné, which is used in spoken Czech. Hrozné = hrozný= plural feminine adjective.
And for the word osmi: I'm not really sure. We use the word osmy sometimes in place of a word osmička which is a noun for number 8 as well as an expression for group of eight people. But in that case there would be a y and not a i at the end. Osma = singular, osmy = plural.
So to sum that up they probably mean something like Group of 8 bad people.
Does that clear it for you a little?

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Note added at 40 mins (2015-08-16 19:21:25 GMT)
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I've also seen a speculation that the Osmi can be a short for some name in the movie. I don't know.

Lida Vodickova
Czech Republic
Local time: 05:20
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