Postavíme dům.

Postavíme means we will build.

It is the 1st person plural form of the verb postavit (to build, perfective). The ending -íme here tells you the subject is we, so Czech does not need a separate word for we unless you want extra emphasis.

Because Czech verbs usually show the subject clearly by their ending.

In postavíme, the ending already means we. So:

• Postavíme dům. = We will build a house.

You can add my (we) if you want contrast or emphasis:

• My postavíme dům. = We will build a house.

But in normal speech, leaving my out is very common.

It looks like a present-tense form, but here it has future meaning.

That is because postavit is a perfective verb. In Czech, perfective verbs do not normally have a true present meaning. Their present-form endings are used to express the future.

So:

• postavíme = we will build, not we are building

If you want we are building, Czech normally uses an imperfective verb:

• Stavíme dům. = We are building a house.

The infinitive is postavit.

This verb is perfective and is commonly paired with the imperfective verb stavět.

A very useful contrast is:

• stavět = to build, focusing on the process, repeated action, or ongoing action
• postavit = to build, focusing on completion or the whole action as a single event

So:

• Stavíme dům. = We are building a house.
• Postavíme dům. = We will build a house.

In this verb, po- helps make the verb perfective.

Compare:

• stavit / stavět related to building
• postavit = a completed, whole action of building/putting up

For a learner, the most important point is that postavit is the perfective partner used when the action is seen as completed or as a single future event.

So Postavíme dům suggests the action as something that will be accomplished, not just an ongoing process.

Dům is the noun house.

In this sentence it is the direct object, so it is in the accusative case. However, for this particular noun, the accusative singular looks the same as the nominative singular:

• nominative: dům
• accusative: dům

That is normal for many masculine inanimate nouns in Czech.

So even though dům is the object here, its form does not change.

You know from the verb form and the meaning of the sentence.

• postavíme already tells you the subject is we
• dům is what is being built, so it is the object

In English, word order does a lot of this work. In Czech, the verb ending gives strong clues, and case also helps. In this sentence, the object happens to look the same as the nominative, so context and the verb form matter.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is:

PO-sta-VEE-me doom

A few key points:

• Czech stress is usually on the first syllable: POstavíme
• í is a long ee sound
• ů is a long oo sound
• dům sounds roughly like doom, but with a pure Czech vowel, not an English one

A more careful approximation is:

• postavíme = [PO-sta-vee-me]
• dům = [doom]

Yes. Czech has no articles like a or the.

So dům can mean:

• a house
• the house

The exact meaning depends on context.

Without context, English often translates it as a house:

• Postavíme dům. = We will build a house.

But in the right context it could also be:

• We will build the house.

Yes. Czech word order is flexible, and changing it often changes the focus or emphasis, not the core meaning.

For example:

• Postavíme dům. = neutral, natural
• Dům postavíme. = emphasizes the house
• My postavíme dům. = emphasizes we

So the basic meaning stays similar, but the information structure changes.

You would usually say:

• Stavíme dům.

Here stavíme comes from the imperfective verb stavět, which is used for an ongoing process.

So compare:

• Stavíme dům. = We are building a house.
• Postavíme dům. = We will build a house.

This is a very important Czech aspect contrast.

Often, yes — or at least it presents the action as a complete event.

Because postavit is perfective, it usually views the action as a whole, with completion in mind. That does not always mean the speaker is explicitly stressing the finished result, but it does mean the action is not being presented as ongoing.

So compared with stavět, postavit feels more like:

• build / put up / get built as a complete event

That is why Postavíme dům is the natural future form for We will build a house.