הנשיא הגיע לכנס.

A common pronunciation is ha-na-SI hi-GI-a le-khe-NES or ha-na-SI hi-GI-a la-KE-nes, depending on how לכנס is being understood in context.

A rough breakdown:

• הנשיא → ha-na-SI
• הגיע → hi-GI-a
• לכנס → either le-khe-NES or la-KE-nes

The prefix ה- is the Hebrew definite article, equivalent to English the.

So:

• נשיא = president
• הנשיא = the president

Because the Hebrew letter ש can represent two different sounds:

• שׁ = sh
• שׂ = s

In unpointed Hebrew, both are written as ש, so you have to know the word. In נשיא, the sound is s, so the word is pronounced nasi.

In Modern Hebrew, a final א is often not pronounced as a strong consonant. It is still part of the correct spelling of the word and reflects the word’s historical form.

So נשיא is written with א, but in normal speech it is simply pronounced nasi.

הגיע is past tense.

More specifically, it is:

• third person
• masculine
• singular

It comes from the verb להגיע, which means to arrive or to reach, depending on context.

In Hebrew, past-tense verbs agree with the subject in gender and number.

The subject here is הנשיא, which is a singular masculine noun, so the verb is הגיע.

If the subject were feminine, you would use הגיעה instead.

Because ל- is a prefixed preposition in Hebrew. It attaches directly to the following noun.

So instead of writing a separate word for to, Hebrew often does this:

• ל + כנס → לכנס

This is very common with short prepositions like ב-, כ-, and ל-.

Because Hebrew and English do not use prepositions in exactly the same way.

With the verb הגיע, Hebrew commonly uses ל- to mark the destination. So Hebrew says something closer to arrived to, even though natural English usually says arrived at.

That is just a normal difference between the two languages.

In unpointed Hebrew, לכנס can be ambiguous.

It can represent:

• לְכֶנֶס = to a conference
• לַכֶּנֶס = to the conference

So the exact meaning depends on context, pronunciation, or niqqud.

It could be written as:

• הַנָּשִׂיא הִגִּיעַ לְכֶנֶס = The president arrived at/to a conference
• הַנָּשִׂיא הִגִּיעַ לַכֶּנֶס = The president arrived at/to the conference

The niqqud helps show both pronunciation and definiteness.

No. הנשיא הגיע לכנס is a very normal word order: subject + verb + destination.

But Hebrew can also say:

• הגיע הנשיא לכנס

That version is also grammatical, though it may sound a bit more literary, narrative, or differently emphasized depending on context.