המשכיר מסכים להשיב כסף לשוכר.

המשכיר means the landlord or, more literally, the one who rents out.

It comes from the verb להשכיר, which means to rent out / lease out.

So:

• המשכיר = the landlord / lessor
• השוכר or שוכר = the tenant / renter

This pair is useful to remember:

• להשכיר = to rent something out
• לשכור = to rent something

מסכים is the masculine singular present-tense form of להסכים = to agree.

It matches the subject המשכיר, which is masculine singular.

Compare:

• המשכיר מסכים = the landlord agrees
• המשכירה מסכימה = the landlady agrees
• המשכירים מסכימים = the landlords agree

In Hebrew present tense, the verb often behaves a lot like an adjective in terms of gender and number agreement.

After להסכים, Hebrew normally uses ל־ + infinitive to say what someone agrees to do.

So the pattern is:

• מסכים + infinitive
• agree + to do something

Examples:

• הוא מסכים לעזור = he agrees to help
• היא מסכימה לשלם = she agrees to pay
• המשכיר מסכים להשיב כסף = the landlord agrees to return money

So להשיב is simply the action that the landlord agrees to perform.

It can mean both, depending on context.

Common meanings of להשיב:

• to return / give back
• to answer / reply

In this sentence, because the object is כסף (money), the meaning is clearly to return money or to refund money.

So here it does not mean to answer.

This is a good example of how Hebrew often relies on context to fix the meaning of a verb.

The ל־ here means to.

Hebrew is marking the tenant as the recipient of the money:

• להשיב כסף לשוכר = to return money to the tenant

So:

• כסף is the thing being returned
• לשוכר is the person receiving it

This is similar to English:

• return money to the tenant

In unpointed Hebrew, לשוכר can be ambiguous.

It may mean:

• to the tenant
• to a tenant

Why? Because when ל־ joins ה־ (the), Hebrew contracts them. So ל + השוכר becomes לשוכר in normal spelling.

That means the same written form can represent:

• לשוכר = to a tenant
• לשוכר = to the tenant

Usually context tells you which one is meant. In a sentence like this, many readers will understand it as to the tenant.

Because כסף here is being used in an indefinite or more general sense: money, not necessarily the specific money.

Hebrew uses את only with a definite direct object.

So:

• להשיב כסף = to return money / refund money
• להשיב את הכסף = to return the money

If the speaker means a specific amount already known in context, את הכסף would be more likely.

Yes. Hebrew word order is fairly flexible.

This sentence:

• המשכיר מסכים להשיב כסף לשוכר

Could also be:

• המשכיר מסכים להשיב לשוכר כסף

Both are natural.

The difference is mostly about emphasis or flow:

• להשיב כסף לשוכר puts money right after the verb
• להשיב לשוכר כסף brings the recipient earlier

Hebrew often allows this kind of variation more freely than English.

It is natural and correct, but it sounds somewhat formal or written, especially because of להשיב.

In everyday speech, many speakers would more naturally say:

• המשכיר מסכים להחזיר כסף לשוכר

Both להשיב and להחזיר can mean to return, but:

• להשיב often sounds more formal, legal, or literary
• להחזיר is very common in everyday conversation

So this sentence is perfectly good Hebrew, but slightly on the formal side.

They are opposite roles in a rental situation.

• המשכיר = the one who rents the property out = landlord / lessor
• השוכר = the one who rents the property = tenant / renter

A very common learner mistake is to confuse these because English uses rent for both directions:

• the landlord rents out
• the tenant rents

Hebrew separates them clearly:

• להשכיר = to rent out
• לשכור = to rent

That distinction is one of the helpful things about Hebrew vocabulary here.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

ha-maskhír maskím lehashív késef la-sokhér

A few notes:

• stress is usually near the end here:
  • maskhír
  • maskím
  • lehashív
  • sokhér
• kh represents the throaty sound of כ / ח
• המשכיר starts with ha- because of ה־ = the

A rough English-friendly rhythm:

• ha-maskhEER mas-KEEM le-ha-SHEEV KE-sef la-so-KHER

Historically and grammatically, it is a participle form that functions like a noun.

That is very common in Hebrew.

So המשכיר literally means something like:

• the one who rents out

And שוכר literally means:

• one who rents

In modern Hebrew, these are completely normal words for landlord and tenant, so you can treat them as vocabulary items. But it is useful to know that Hebrew often builds job titles and role words this way.