Žánr je komedie.

A good rough pronunciation is:

• Žánr ≈ zhahnr
• je ≈ yeh
• komedie ≈ KO-me-di-ye

A few important details:

• ž sounds like the s in measure
• á is a long vowel, so hold the a a bit longer
• j is pronounced like English y
• Czech stress is normally on the first syllable of each word, so:
  • ŽÁnr
  • JE
  • KOmedie

They are Czech diacritics:

• Ž / ž is a separate letter, pronounced like s in measure
• á means the vowel is long

So a and á are not the same in Czech. Vowel length can matter.

Je means is.

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

So:

• jsem = I am
• jsi = you are
• je = he/she/it is

In this sentence, the subject is singular, so je is the correct form.

Czech normally does not use articles.

So Czech often leaves it to context whether English would use:

• the
• a/an
• sometimes no article at all

That means Žánr je komedie can correspond to English expressions like:

• The genre is comedy
• The genre is a comedy

The exact English wording depends on context.

Because this is a simple X is Y sentence.

Here:

• žánr is the subject
• komedie is the predicate noun after je

In this kind of basic identifying sentence, Czech commonly uses the nominative form for both nouns.

So:

• žánr = nominative singular
• komedie = nominative singular

That is why you see komedie, not something like komedii.

Yes, they have grammatical gender:

• žánr is masculine inanimate
• komedie is feminine

In this particular sentence, that does not change the form of je, because the present tense of být agrees mainly in person and number, not gender.

Gender matters more with things like:

• adjectives
• pronouns
• past tense forms

Yes, Czech word order is flexible, but changing it usually changes the focus or even the meaning.

• Žánr je komedie. = The genre is comedy.
• Komedie je žánr. = Comedy is a genre.

So those are not the same sentence in practice.

The original order is the normal one if you want to say what the genre is.

Yes, but it sounds a bit like a label, description, or database entry.

For example, it fits well in:

• a film listing
• a review
• a form
• a category description

In everyday conversation, if you are talking about a movie or book already understood from context, Czech speakers might more naturally say:

• Je to komedie. = It’s a comedy.

So Žánr je komedie is correct, but a little more formal or categorical.

Komedie is a feminine noun. Its forms include:

• nominative: komedie
• genitive: komedie
• dative: komedii
• accusative: komedii
• locative: komedii
• instrumental: komedií

So in this sentence, komedie is in the nominative.

Only because it is the first word of the sentence.

In Czech, common nouns like žánr and komedie are normally not capitalized unless they begin a sentence. So in the middle of a sentence, you would write:

• žánr
• komedie