Chceme vidět svět.

• Chceme = we want. It is the 1st person plural present form of chtít (to want).
• vidět = to see. This is an infinitive.
• svět = world, the direct object of vidět.

So the structure is:

[we want] + [to see] + [world]

That is very similar to English We want to see the world.

Because Czech verbs usually show the subject in their ending.

• chci = I want
• chceš = you want
• chce = he/she/it wants
• chceme = we want
• chcete = you want / you all want
• chtějí = they want

So chceme already means we want, and adding my (we) is usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast:

• My chceme vidět svět. = We want to see the world.

After chtít (to want), Czech normally uses the infinitive of the second verb.

Examples:

• Chci spát. = I want to sleep.
• Chceme jíst. = We want to eat.
• Chceme vidět svět. = We want to see the world.

So this works much like English want + to + verb.

Here svět is the direct object of vidět, so it is in the accusative case.

But for masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular is often the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: svět = the world
• accusative: svět = the world

That is why the form does not change here.

Svět is masculine inanimate.

Yes, that matters, because Czech noun gender affects:

• adjective endings
• pronouns
• case endings
• sometimes verb agreement in the past

For this sentence, the important point is that masculine inanimate accusative singular often looks the same as nominative, so svět stays svět.

A simple English-friendly approximation is:

KH-tseh-meh VEE-dyet svyet

A few important sounds:

• ch = the rough sound in German Bach or Scottish loch, not English ch in cheese
• c = ts
• ě usually makes the preceding consonant softer; in vidět and svět it gives something like dye / svye
• v is pronounced like English v
• Czech stress usually falls on the first syllable of each word:
  • CHCeme
  • VIdět
  • SVĚT

This is about aspect, which is very important in Czech.

• vidět is imperfective
• uvidět is perfective

Very roughly:

• vidět focuses on seeing as a process or general action
• uvidět focuses more on catching sight of / seeing successfully

In Chceme vidět svět, vidět is the natural choice because the idea is broad and general: we want to see the world.

If you said Chceme uvidět svět, it would sound unusual in this context.

Yes. Czech word order is more flexible than English because endings carry a lot of grammatical information.

The neutral order here is:

• Chceme vidět svět.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Svět chceme vidět. = It is the world that we want to see.
• Vidět svět chceme. = More marked, poetic, or contrastive.

So the standard learner-friendly version is Chceme vidět svět.

Because English and Czech handle infinitives differently.

In English:

• to see

In Czech:

• vidět

Czech infinitives do not need a separate word like English to. The infinitive ending itself already shows that the verb is in the infinitive form.

Not completely. It is a common verb, but its forms are not perfectly predictable for a beginner.

Infinitive:

• vidět = to see

Present forms:

• vidím = I see
• vidíš = you see
• vidí = he/she sees
• vidíme = we see
• vidíte = you see
• vidí = they see

So in this sentence you should probably just learn vidět as the infinitive used after chtít.

You negate chtít by adding ne-:

• Nechceme vidět svět. = We do not want to see the world.

You could also negate the second verb:

• Chceme nevidět svět.

But that is not the normal way to express the idea in most situations. The natural sentence for We don't want to see the world is:

• Nechceme vidět svět.

Czech has no articles like English a/an/the.

So svět can mean:

• world
• the world

The exact meaning comes from context. In this sentence, the natural English translation is the world, even though Czech does not have a separate word for the.

In theory, without articles, Czech nouns can be broader than English nouns. But in normal usage, Chceme vidět svět is understood as We want to see the world.

If you wanted a more specific or unusual meaning, Czech would usually show that through context or extra words, not through an article system.

So for a learner, the safe reading here is:

• Chceme vidět svět = We want to see the world