Majstor će proveriti plafon.

Majstor literally means master craftsman, but in everyday Serbian it often means repairman, handyman, technician, or workman, depending on context.

So in this sentence, majstor is probably the person who does repair or inspection work, not necessarily an artist or master in the English sense.

Yes. će proveriti is a way to form the future tense in Serbian.

• će = a future auxiliary, roughly will
• proveriti = to check

So:

• Majstor će proveriti plafon.
• The repairman will check the ceiling.

This is the normal future I construction.

Proveriti is the infinitive form, meaning to check.

In this sentence, Serbian uses:

• će + infinitive

So:

• će proveriti = will check

By contrast, proverava means checks / is checking, so it is a present-tense form, not the infinitive.

Compare:

• Majstor proverava plafon. = The repairman is checking / checks the ceiling.
• Majstor će proveriti plafon. = The repairman will check the ceiling.

će is the third person singular future auxiliary.

It is used with:

• on/ona/ono će = he/she/it will

Since majstor is singular, će matches that.

Examples:

• Majstor će doći. = The repairman will come.
• Majstor će proveriti plafon. = The repairman will check the ceiling.

If the subject were plural, you would usually use će as well in this kind of sentence:

• Majstori će proveriti plafon. = The repairmen will check the ceiling.

So će is very common in future-tense sentences.

In Serbian, će is a clitic, which means it tends to stand in the second position of the sentence or clause.

So Serbian often puts it after the first word or phrase:

• Majstor će proveriti plafon.

That is why it is not usually placed like English will before the main verb.

This second-position behavior is very common with Serbian clitics.

Yes, plafon is the direct object of the verb proveriti.

The verb proveriti takes the accusative case, and plafon is a masculine inanimate noun. For many masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular looks the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• plafon = nominative singular
• plafon = accusative singular

That is why the form does not change here.

Compare with a masculine animate noun, where the accusative usually does change:

• majstor = nominative
• majstora = accusative

Yes, proveriti is a perfective verb.

That matters because perfective verbs in Serbian usually refer to a completed whole action. Here, it suggests that the repairman will carry out the check and complete it.

So će proveriti means something like:

• will check
• will inspect
• will make sure by checking

If you wanted a more ongoing or repeated sense, Serbian would often use an imperfective verb instead.

This aspect distinction is very important in Serbian, even when English simply says check.

Serbian does not have articles like English a or the.

So:

• majstor can mean a repairman or the repairman
• plafon can mean a ceiling or the ceiling

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, English would often translate it as The repairman will check the ceiling, but Serbian does not need separate words for the.

će is pronounced roughly like chyeh or tyeh, depending on how closely you try to imitate Serbian pronunciation.

A few points:

• ć is a soft sound, somewhat like a softer version of English ch
• e is like e in met, but cleaner and shorter

So će is one syllable.

For English speakers, the most important thing is not to pronounce it like see or kay.

Yes, Serbian word order is fairly flexible, although some versions sound more natural than others.

The neutral order here is:

• Majstor će proveriti plafon.

But depending on emphasis, you might also hear:

• Plafon će proveriti majstor.
  This puts more focus on the ceiling or contrasts who will check it.

Even when word order changes, the meaning is often still clear because Serbian uses case and clitic placement rather than relying only on word order.

Yes, depending on context.

Proveriti often means:

• check
• verify
• inspect

In a sentence about a ceiling, English might naturally choose:

• The repairman will check the ceiling.
• The repairman will inspect the ceiling.

Both can work. Check is the broad, everyday translation, while inspect may sound a bit more formal or technical.