No matter how geographically close the Czech Republic and Poland are, the mental distance between these two countries can be vast. It has been half a century since Anna Wierzbicka coined what is now known as the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (for more information, see the introduction of this volume), and yet, this research project has barely even started to take root in the Czech academic debate. One of Anna Wierzbicka’s books was translated into Czech (2014), NSM earned a few brief mentions (mainly in works on Polish ethnolinguistics, e.g. Vaňková, 1999; Vaňková, et al. 2005) and was tentatively used in several papers (e.g. Doischer, 2020; Pavlásková, 2022, 2023). However, Czech linguistics lacks any comprehensive studies which would explore this approach systematically and in depth, confirm the existence of language universals in Czech or make the non-ethnocentric metalanguage accessible for Czech researchers in various fields. This chapter is meant to be a starting point for such efforts by examining some semantic primes and their syntax in detail, following the treatment Bert Peeters gave to Romance languages in the 2006 edited volume (Peeters, 2006).