Mluvíme o smrti.

Mluvíme is the 1st person plural present tense of mluvit, which means to speak or to talk.

So mluvíme can mean:

• we speak
• we are speaking
• we are talking

Czech present tense often covers both the simple present and the present continuous, so the exact English translation depends on context.

Because Czech verb endings usually show who the subject is.

In mluvíme, the ending -íme already tells you the subject is we. So Czech normally does not need a separate pronoun.

You could say My mluvíme o smrti, but my would add emphasis, like we are talking about death.

With the verb mluvit, the preposition o means about.

So a very useful pattern is:

• mluvit o něčem = to talk about something

That means mluvíme o smrti literally follows the Czech structure we talk about death.

Because the preposition o requires the locative case when it means about.

The basic dictionary form is smrt = death.
After o, it changes to smrti.

So:

• smrt = basic form
• o smrti = about death

This is one of the main things English speakers need to get used to in Czech: nouns change form depending on their role in the sentence.

Here it is singular.

In this sentence, o tells you that smrti is the locative singular form of smrt.

So o smrti means about death, not about deaths.

It is true that smrti can be a different form in other contexts, but here the preposition makes the meaning clear.

Because Czech does not have articles like a, an, or the.

So Czech simply says smrt or smrti, and the exact sense comes from context.

That means o smrti can correspond to:

• about death
• about the death

In this sentence, the natural reading is usually about death in a general sense.

Yes. Czech word order is much more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Mluvíme o smrti.

But you could also say:

• O smrti mluvíme.

That version puts more emphasis on o smrti. Both are grammatical, but they may sound slightly different in focus or style.

A rough guide is:

• Mluvíme → mloo-VEE-meh
• o → o
• smrti → SMR-ti

A few helpful points:

• í is long, so ví is held a little longer.
• In mluvíme, both m and l are pronounced.
• In smrti, the r is a real Czech r, not an English-style vowel sound.
• The stress in Czech is normally on the first syllable of each word: MLU-ví-me, SMR-ti.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Czech does not usually make the same strong distinction that English does between:

• we speak
• we are speaking / talking

So Mluvíme o smrti could mean:

• We talk about death
• We are talking about death

If this is a single sentence by itself, English often translates it as We are talking about death.

It is best to learn both:

• mluvit = to speak / to talk
• mluvit o + locative = to talk about

This helps you remember the correct preposition and case together. For many Czech verbs, that is much easier than learning the verb alone and trying to guess the pattern later.