Nájemce je daleko od domu.

Nájemce means tenant, renter, or lessee, depending on context.

In everyday housing context, it usually means tenant. So this sentence would most naturally mean:

• The tenant is far from the house.

Grammatically, nájemce is a masculine animate noun.

Because not all masculine nouns in Czech have the endings English speakers may expect.

Nájemce is a masculine animate noun of a pattern that often ends in -e in the nominative singular, similar to words like:

• soudce = judge
• poradce = adviser

So even though it ends in -e, it is still masculine.

In this sentence, nájemce is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence.

Je is the 3rd person singular form of být (to be).

So:

• nájemce = the tenant
• je = is
• daleko od domu = far from the house

Together:

• Nájemce je daleko od domu.
• The tenant is far from the house.

Here daleko is used as an adverb, meaning far.

In Czech, with expressions like to be far from something, the usual pattern is:

• být daleko od + genitive

So:

• je daleko od domu = is far from the house

You would not normally say je daleký od domu here. That sounds unnatural. The standard expression is daleko od.

Od means from.

So daleko od domu literally means:

• far from the house

This is a fixed and very common Czech pattern:

• blízko domu = close to the house
• daleko od domu = far from the house

Notice that daleko usually goes with od when you say what something is far from.

Because od requires the genitive case.

The basic form is:

• dům = house

After od, it changes to the genitive:

• od domu = from the house

So the sentence uses:

• Nájemce je daleko od domu.

This is a very important Czech pattern:

• od + genitive

Examples:

• od školy = from the school
• od města = from the town
• od domu = from the house

Because Czech has no articles like English a and the.

So:

• nájemce can mean a tenant or the tenant
• dům / domu can mean a house / the house

Which one is meant depends on context.

In many isolated example sentences, English translates it with the because that sounds most natural:

• The tenant is far from the house.

But Czech itself does not mark that distinction with articles.

Yes. Czech word order is more flexible than English because case endings help show grammatical roles.

The neutral order here is:

• Nájemce je daleko od domu.

But other orders are possible, for example for emphasis:

• Od domu je nájemce daleko.
• Daleko od domu je nájemce.

These alternatives are not all equally neutral. The original sentence is the most straightforward and natural basic version.

So for learners, the safest default is:

• subject + je + daleko od + genitive

Nájemce is grammatically masculine.

If you want to refer specifically to a female tenant, Czech often uses:

• nájemkyně = female tenant

So:

• Nájemkyně je daleko od domu.
• The female tenant is far from the house.

However, in legal or formal language, masculine forms are sometimes used generically. Still, in normal everyday speech, if you know the tenant is a woman, nájemkyně is common and natural.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Nájemce ≈ NAA-yehm-tseh
• je ≈ yeh
• daleko ≈ DAH-leh-koh
• od ≈ ot or very lightly od
• domu ≈ DOH-moo

A few helpful notes:

• á is a long vowel.
• j is pronounced like English y in yes.
• c in Czech is pronounced like ts.
• e is usually like e in met, not like English ee.

So the whole sentence is approximately:

• NAA-yehm-tseh yeh DAH-leh-koh ot DOH-moo

Dům primarily means house or building, not home in the emotional sense.

So od domu most directly means:

• from the house
• sometimes from the building

If you want home in the sense of where someone belongs, Czech often uses:

• domov = home, homeland
• doma = at home

So this sentence is most naturally about physical distance from a house/building, not about being far from home emotionally.

Yes, grammatically it is perfectly normal.

The structure is very standard:

• [subject] + je + daleko od + genitive

For example:

• Auto je daleko od školy. = The car is far from the school.
• Pes je daleko od lesa. = The dog is far from the forest.

So this sentence is a good model for learning how Czech expresses far from.

You would change both the subject and the verb:

• Nájemci jsou daleko od domu.
• The tenants are far from the house.

Changes:

• nájemce → nájemci = tenants
• je → jsou = are

The phrase daleko od domu stays the same unless the thing after od also changes.

For example:

• Nájemci jsou daleko od domů. = The tenants are far from the houses.