Rozbitý stůl nemusíme hned odnést; možná ho půjde opravit.

Czech has no articles, so it does not have direct equivalents of a and the.

So Rozbitý stůl can mean either:

• a broken table
• the broken table

The context tells you which one is meant. If the speaker wants to be more specific, they can use words like ten for something like that/the.

Rozbitý means broken.

It comes from the verb rozbít, meaning to break. Formally, rozbitý is a participial adjective, but for a learner it is easiest to think of it simply as an adjective meaning broken.

In this sentence, it describes stůl.

Because the adjective has to agree with the noun it describes.

Stůl is:

• masculine
• singular
• nominative

So the adjective also takes the masculine singular nominative form: rozbitý.

If the noun changed, the adjective would change too. For example:

• rozbitý stůl = broken table
• rozbité okno = broken window
• rozbitá židle = broken chair

This is a very important Czech point.

muset = to have to / must

But the negative nemuset usually means:

• not have to
• need not

So nemusíme hned odnést means we don’t have to carry it away right away.

It does not usually mean we must not.

Compare:

• musíme = we have to
• nemusíme = we don’t have to
• nesmíme = we must not / we are not allowed to
• nemůžeme = we cannot

So in this sentence, the idea is it is not necessary, not it is forbidden.

Hned means immediately, right away, or straight away.

So:

• nemusíme hned odnést = we do not have to take it away immediately

It adds the idea that there is no need to do it at once. Maybe they can wait and see whether it can be repaired.

This is about aspect.

• odnést = perfective
• odnášet = imperfective

Here the sentence is talking about one complete action: taking the table away. Because of that, the perfective infinitive odnést is natural.

So nemusíme hned odnést means something like:

• we do not have to carry it away as a completed act

If you used odnášet, it would sound more like focusing on the process or on repeated carrying away, which does not fit as well here.

Ho means him or it, and here it means it. It refers back to stůl.

So:

• stůl = table
• ho = it

The verb opravit takes a direct object, and ho is that object: repair it.

This is a short pronoun form. A fuller form is jej, but ho is very common in normal speech and writing.

This is a very common Czech construction.

jít / půjde + infinitive can mean:

• it is possible to...
• it will be possible to...
• it can be done

So možná ho půjde opravit means:

• maybe it will be possible to repair it
• more naturally, maybe it can be repaired

It does not mean that something is physically going somewhere to repair it. Here půjde is part of an idiomatic expression of possibility.

A useful comparison:

• To nejde. = That can’t be done / That won’t work.
• To půjde. = That will work / That can be done.

Because ho is a clitic, a short unstressed pronoun.

In Czech, clitics usually appear very early in the clause, often in the second position. That is why ho comes before the rest of the verbal phrase.

So:

• možná ho půjde opravit sounds natural

A version like možná půjde ho opravit is much less natural.

This early placement of short pronouns is a very typical Czech word-order pattern.

Again, this is aspect.

• opravit = perfective, to repair successfully, to get something fixed
• opravovat = imperfective, to be repairing, to repair in general, to work on repairs

Here the speaker means a single completed result: maybe the table can be fixed. That is why opravit fits best.

So:

• půjde opravit = it will be possible to fix it
• půjde opravovat would sound more like it will be possible to be repairing it, which is not the intended idea

Not especially. It is mainly a punctuation choice.

The semicolon shows that the two parts are closely connected, but there is still a stronger break than with a simple comma.

The sentence could also be written in other natural ways, for example:

• Rozbitý stůl nemusíme hned odnést, možná ho půjde opravit.
• Rozbitý stůl nemusíme hned odnést. Možná ho půjde opravit.

The semicolon just gives a neat, slightly more careful written style.