B2Fairy tale

Long, Broad and Sharpsight

A forbidden room, an iron castle and three impossible servants. Erben's tale adapted for B2: complex sentences, the conditional and the passive — and not one archaism.

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Words from the text

komnatachamber
zvědavostcuriosity
čarodějsorcerer
vzít do službyto take into one's service
natáhnout seto stretch out
nadmout seto swell up
zkamenětto turn to stone
uhlídatto keep watch over, to guard
žaludacorn
skálarock, cliff
odbíjetto strike (of a clock)
krkavecraven

Source of the text: K. J. Erben, Dlouhý, Široký a Bystrozraký (Sto prostonárodních pohádek a říkadel českých i slovanských, 1865), public domain