Pěstitel a trhovec mají tržní stánek.

Because the subject is compound: pěstitel a trhovec = the grower and the market trader.

Even though each noun is singular by itself, together they mean two people, so Czech uses the 3rd person plural verb:

• má = he/she/it has
• mají = they have

So:

• Pěstitel má stánek. = The grower has a stall.
• Pěstitel a trhovec mají stánek. = The grower and the market trader have a stall.

• pěstitel and trhovec are in the nominative, because they are the subject of the sentence.
• stánek is in the accusative, because it is the direct object of mají.

So the structure is:

• Pěstitel a trhovec = subject
• mají = verb
• tržní stánek = object

One thing that may confuse learners: stánek looks the same in nominative and accusative. That is normal, because it is a masculine inanimate noun.

Sometimes yes, but not always.

Stánek is a masculine inanimate noun, and for many masculine inanimate nouns, the nominative and accusative singular are identical.

So:

• nominative: stánek
• accusative: stánek

Compare that with a masculine animate noun, where the accusative often changes:

• nominative: trhovec
• accusative: trhovce

But in your sentence, trhovec is the subject, so it stays nominative.

Tržní is an adjective meaning something like market, market-related, or of the market.

It describes stánek, so it must agree with it in:

• gender
• number
• case

Since stánek is masculine singular accusative inanimate, the adjective also takes the matching form:

• tržní stánek

This particular adjective ends in -ní, and adjectives of this type often have the same form across several categories, so the form may look simpler than you expect.

They are two different roles:

• pěstitel = grower, cultivator, someone who grows plants or produce
• trhovec = market trader, seller at a market

So the sentence suggests two people:

• one who grows the goods
• one who sells them at the market

Depending on context, English translations can vary a little, but that is the core distinction.

Mají is the 3rd person plural present tense of the verb mít = to have.

Present tense forms of mít are:

• mám = I have
• máš = you have
• má = he/she/it has
• máme = we have
• máte = you have
• mají = they have

So here:

• pěstitel a trhovec mají = the grower and the market trader have

Because Czech does not use articles like English a/an and the.

So:

• pěstitel can mean a grower or the grower
• trhovec can mean a market trader or the market trader
• tržní stánek can mean a market stall or the market stall

Which one sounds best in English depends on context. Czech leaves that unstated unless something else makes it clear.

Yes. Czech word order is more flexible than English because case endings help show who is doing what.

The neutral order here is:

• Pěstitel a trhovec mají tržní stánek.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Tržní stánek mají pěstitel a trhovec.
• Mají tržní stánek pěstitel a trhovec.

These alternatives may sound more marked or stylistically different, but they are still understandable.

English is much less flexible, so learners often expect Czech word order to be fixed when it is not.

A few pronunciation points:

• ě in pěstitel softens the preceding consonant, so pě is roughly like pye but softer.
• ř in tržní is the famous Czech sound: a kind of raised, vibrating r/zh sound. It is difficult for most learners.
• ž sounds like the s in measure.
• á and í are long vowels, so they are held longer:
  • mají
  • tržní
  • stánek

A rough learner-friendly approximation might be:

• pěstitel ≈ pyestitel
• trhovec ≈ trho-vets
• tržní ≈ trzh-nee
• stánek ≈ staa-nek

Not perfect, but useful as a starting point.

A means and.

So:

• pěstitel a trhovec = the grower and the market trader

This is the normal Czech conjunction for simply joining two nouns, phrases, or clauses.

It is one stall, because stánek is singular.

So the sentence means that the two people have one market stall together, or at least it presents it as a single stall.

If you wanted more than one, you would use the plural:

• Pěstitel a trhovec mají tržní stánky. = The grower and the market trader have market stalls.

Yes, that is the most natural reading.

Because the sentence says:

• pěstitel a trhovec mají tržní stánek

it presents the two people as one combined subject with one singular object. That usually suggests they have a stall together.

However, context always matters. A sentence like this mainly states possession, not the exact legal or practical arrangement.

It is understandable, but it may feel a bit specific or somewhat literary depending on context. Czech has several words related to sellers and traders, and the most natural choice can depend on the situation.

A learner should mainly notice here that:

• it is a masculine noun
• it means a kind of trader/vendor
• in this sentence it is in the nominative singular

So even if vocabulary choices vary in real life, the grammar pattern is still very useful.