Snad bude úroda dobrá.

Hopefully, the crop will be good.

Breakdown of Snad bude úroda dobrá.

• být: to be
• dobrý: good
• úroda: the harvest; the crop
• snad: perhaps; hopefully

Questions & Answers about Snad bude úroda dobrá.

What does snad mean here?

Here snad means something like hopefully, I hope, or perhaps.

In this sentence, it gives the whole statement a hopeful tone:

• Snad bude úroda dobrá. = Hopefully the harvest will be good.

A useful thing to know is that snad can be a little flexible depending on context and intonation. It can express:

• hope: hopefully
• uncertainty: perhaps / maybe

In this sentence, the most natural reading is hopeful rather than doubtful.

Why is bude used?

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

So:

• být = to be
• bude = will be

That fits this sentence because úroda is a singular noun, so Czech uses the singular future form:

• úroda bude = the harvest will be

Why is úroda the subject of the sentence?