Krmím psa ráno.

In Czech, the verb ending usually tells you who the subject is, so the subject pronoun is often left out.

• krmím = I feed / I am feeding
• the ending -ím shows 1st person singular: I

So Krmím psa ráno. already includes the idea of I, even without já.

You can say Já krmím psa ráno, but that usually adds emphasis, like I feed the dog in the morning.

Because psa is the accusative singular form of pes.

• pes = the basic dictionary form, called the nominative
• psa = the form used when the dog is the direct object

In Krmím psa ráno, the dog is the thing being fed, so Czech uses the accusative.

This is especially important because pes is a masculine animate noun, and masculine animate nouns often change form in the accusative.

You do not know from the noun alone, because Czech has no articles like a or the.

So psa can mean:

• a dog
• the dog
• sometimes even my dog / our dog, if the context makes that clear

Czech relies much more on context than English does for this.

Here ráno means in the morning or simply morning as an adverbial time expression.

So in this sentence it tells you when the feeding happens.

A useful thing to notice: Czech often uses ráno without a preposition, where English needs in the morning.

Here it functions like an adverbial expression of time.

Even though ráno is related to the noun morning, in this sentence it behaves more like when? = in the morning.

So if you are translating word for word, do not expect a separate preposition like in.

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

For example, these are all possible:

• Krmím psa ráno.
• Ráno krmím psa.
• Psa krmím ráno.

They all have basically the same core meaning, but the emphasis changes:

• Krmím psa ráno. = neutral
• Ráno krmím psa. = emphasis on in the morning
• Psa krmím ráno. = emphasis on the dog

It can mean both, depending on context.

Czech present tense often covers both:

• I feed the dog in the morning = habitual
• I am feeding the dog = happening now

In this sentence, because of ráno, the most natural reading is usually I feed the dog in the morning as a routine.

The infinitive is krmit, which means to feed.

So:

• krmit = to feed
• krmím = I feed / I am feeding

This is the form you would look up in a dictionary.

krmit is imperfective.

That means it is used for:

• ongoing actions
• repeated actions
• habits
• general statements

That fits this sentence well, especially if the meaning is habitual: I feed the dog in the morning.

A common perfective partner is nakrmit, which means something like to feed fully / to finish feeding.

So:

• Krmím psa. = I am feeding / I feed the dog
• Nakrmím psa. = I will feed the dog / I’ll make sure the dog gets fed

A learner might want to see the pattern:

• já krmím = I feed
• ty krmíš = you feed
• on/ona/ono krmí = he/she/it feeds
• my krmíme = we feed
• vy krmíte = you feed
• oni/ony krmí = they feed

This helps you recognize that krmím is specifically the I form.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

krmeem psa raano

More carefully:

• krmím ≈ kr-meem
• psa ≈ psa
• ráno ≈ raa-no

A few useful notes:

• í is a long ee sound
• á is a long aa sound
• Czech r is rolled or tapped
• the p in psa is pronounced, unlike in English words like psychology

Because Czech often uses time expressions more directly than English.

English says:

• in the morning

But Czech can simply say:

• ráno

This is normal and natural. So do not try to force an English-style preposition into every Czech time phrase.

No. psa is singular, so it means dog, not dogs.

If you wanted dogs as the direct object, you would need a plural form, such as psy in the appropriate context.

So Krmím psa ráno. clearly refers to one dog.