What's in a Prague street name

U nás was built in 1935.

U nás is a novel by Alois Jirásek, discussed on both https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/10/prague-4-day-275-ludvikova/ and https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/12/prague-4-day-277-havlovickeho/.

‘U nás’ is a simple phrase that can be translated in multiple ways in English, because we don’t have an equivalent of ‘u’ / ‘chez’ / ‘bei’ / ‘hos’, and so on. You could say ‘at our place’, ‘where we live’, ’round ours’, etc.

The whole Jirásek district thing is an excellent and fascinating idea, but, if there were a street called ‘Round ours’ simply because somebody thought that would sound all homely and wholesome, I think that would have been my favourite street name ever.