Majstor će popraviti grejanje.

Here majstor means repairman, tradesman, or craftsman—someone skilled who comes to fix something.

Depending on context, majstor can also mean:

• master in the sense of being very skilled
• a specific worker such as a mechanic, electrician, plumber, etc.

In this sentence, it most naturally means the repairman / the technician.

A rough English-style pronunciation is:

MY-stor chay po-PRA-vee-tee GREH-ya-nye

A few important sounds:

• j is pronounced like English y
• ć is a soft ch sound
• nj is like the ny in canyon
• je in grejanje is pronounced together, roughly ye

So:

• Majstor → MY-stor
• će → chay
• popraviti → po-PRA-vee-tee
• grejanje → GREH-ya-nye

The future tense here is formed with:

će + infinitive

So:

• će = will
• popraviti = to repair / to fix

Together: će popraviti = will repair / will fix

This is a very common way to form the future in Serbian.

Because popraviti by itself is only the infinitive, meaning to fix.

To say will fix, Serbian adds the future auxiliary:

• popraviti = to fix
• će popraviti = will fix

So će is necessary to show future meaning.

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

• popraviti = perfective → to fix something successfully, as a completed action
• popravljati = imperfective → to be fixing, to fix in a general/repeated/ongoing sense

In this sentence, popraviti is used because the idea is that the repairman will get the heating fixed as a completed result.

So:

• Majstor će popraviti grejanje. = The repairman will fix the heating.
  (focus on completion)

If you used popravljati, it would suggest a different nuance, more like an ongoing or habitual action.

Grejanje is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb popraviti.

The repairman will fix what? → grejanje

However, the form looks the same as the nominative:

• nominative: grejanje
• accusative: grejanje

That is normal for many neuter nouns in Serbian: nominative and accusative singular are often identical.

Serbian does not have articles like English a/an/the.

So majstor can mean:

• a repairman
• the repairman

The exact meaning depends on context.

In translation, English usually has to choose one:

• The repairman will fix the heating or
• A repairman will fix the heating

Both can be possible depending on the situation.

Yes, Serbian word order is fairly flexible.

The neutral, natural order here is:

• Majstor će popraviti grejanje.

But other word orders are also possible, for example:

• Grejanje će popraviti majstor.
• Majstor grejanje će popraviti.
  (less neutral, more marked)

Changing the order usually changes emphasis, not the basic meaning.

For example:

• Grejanje će popraviti majstor. emphasizes the heating or contrasts the repairman with someone else.

So the given order is the most straightforward one for a learner.

Grejanje means heating.

It can refer to:

• the heating system
• the heating in a building
• central heating in general

So in this sentence, it most likely means the heating system or the heating in a house/apartment/building.

Not exactly. There is a common pronunciation/spelling difference between major standards:

• grejanje = more typical in Ekavian
• grijanje = more typical in Ijekavian

They mean the same thing: heating.

So you may see:

• Majstor će popraviti grejanje. or
• Majstor će popraviti grijanje.

Both are correct, depending on the variety of Serbian.

Good question. In Serbian, the future can appear in two common ways:

1. će + infinitive

   • Majstor će popraviti grejanje.

2. auxiliary attached to the verb form

   • Majstor popraviće grejanje.
     This form exists, but in modern standard language the first version is much more natural here.

In everyday usage, će + infinitive is the clearest and most common pattern for learners to recognize.

Also, with some verbs and pronouns, future forms can look a bit different, so it is best at first to learn:

• ću / ćeš / će / ćemo / ćete / će
  • infinitive

Yes. Majstor is a broad word.

It can refer to:

• a handyman
• a mechanic
• a skilled worker
• a craftsman
• a specialist who comes to repair something

So English translations can vary:

• The repairman will fix the heating
• The technician will fix the heating
• The handyman will fix the heating

The best choice depends on context.

The dictionary forms are:

• majstor → majstor
  noun, masculine, repairman / craftsman
• će → from the verb hteti
  future auxiliary, here meaning will
• popraviti → popraviti
  infinitive, perfective verb, to fix / repair
• grejanje → grejanje
  noun, neuter, heating

So a learner could break the sentence down as:

• Majstor = repairman
• će = will
• popraviti = fix
• grejanje = heating

→ The repairman will fix the heating.