I visited Prague last year with my girlfriend and we bought the attached picture with two seals and the Czech word 'tulení'.
We found out that this just means 'seal' in Czech. But we couldnt find out if this word has a different/ambigous meaning.

Could you help us out here?

by abo438

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  3. yes tulení means “seal related”, an adjective to seal (noun is tuleň). the other meaning is to cuddle, from the verb tulit se

  6. You are wrong. “Tuleni” and “tulení” are two unrelated words because “i” and “í” are two unrelated Czech letters. “Tuleni” means “seals” but “tulení” means “cuddling”.

    Czech language has over 30 letters. And one of them is “ch”. Yes, “ch” is a single letter, unrelated to “c” or “h”.

  7. Řek jsem jí, že mám rád tulení, tak mi ho udělala k večeři…

  8. “Tuleň” means “seal”.

    But “Tulit se” (inf.) means “to cuddle”. This is converted into “Tulení” (prog.) which means “cuddling”.

    This is a play on words since Tulení is a verb for cuddling which is what they are obviously doing but can also be an adjective “Seal’s” or in czech also Tulení. Also the plural of “Tuleň” is “Tuleňi”, important to not that the “i” is not “í” which means it’s short and not long as in the picture.

  9. tulenÍ (long í)= cuddling

    tulenI (short I) = seals

  11. Whoever came up with this picture is a genius and such a lovely person🌝

  13. Tuleň – seal

    Tulení – to cuddle

    According to google these words are not related and its a
    Incidental similiarity.

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