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    Janu miluje Petr. -- PETR loves Jana.
    Petr miluje Janu. -- Petr loves JANA.
Does context define subject/object since otherwise these seem equally to mean Jana loves Petr?


These sentences do not mean "Jana loves Petr." Subject/object relationship is determined by case marking suffixes on nouns.

Another comment proposed an apropos analogy:

English is like position-based parameter-passing.

  sentence.love("Petr", "Jana")
Czech is like keyword-based parameter passing.

  sentence.love(object="Jana", subject="Petr")




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