"Matěj jí chléb a pije vodu."

Translation: Matěj is eating bread and drinking water.

[Iker_CDMX]

I would like to know if the following translations could be suitable for the sentence:

a) Matěj eats bread and is drinking water.
b) Matěj is eating bread and drinks water.

Děkuji moc!

[JanLyko]

"Matěj jí chléb a pije vodu" can mean both

"Matěj is eating bread and drinking water"

and

"Matěj eats bread and drinks water"

But your desired combination of two different tenses could be expressed just using auxiliary words such as "právě teď" (right now) with one of the verbs to distinguish the tenses.

[Fabiola-609]

I reported "Matěj is eating bread and is drinking water". In English it's not uncorrect to put two times "is" imo. By the way,I am curious to know what TO eat and TO drink is in Czech?

[JanLyko]

to eat = jíst

to drink = pít

In English, infinitive begins with "TO". In Czech it ends with "T".

[Fabiola-609]

Ah ok, good to know. Thanks Jan!

[Annatamoracz]

Poor Matěj is in prison...

[MKnight20]

i feel for Matej, after going to jail Zofie is not interested in him and Katerina doesnt think about him...

[TomOBrien603862]

It doesn't say is in the Czech sentence. Why???

[svrsheque]

that is not how czech works. please read the rest of the discussion.