המשכיר ישיב את הערובה בגלל שפרוטוקול מצב הדירה מראה בלאי סביר.

המשכיר is the person who rents out the property, so the landlord / lessor.

A very common confusion is:

• המשכיר = the one who rents out
• השוכר = the one who rents for himself, meaning the tenant / renter

They come from related verbs:

• להשכיר = to rent out
• לשכור = to rent

The ה־ at the beginning of המשכיר here is the definite article, so the landlord / the lessor.

ישיב is a 3rd person masculine singular future form, meaning he will return or he will restore.

It matches המשכיר, which is masculine singular.

So grammatically:

• המשכיר = the landlord
• ישיב = will return

In formal or legal Hebrew, the future tense often sounds a bit like a formal commitment or rule, not just simple future time. So it can feel like shall return in legal English.

את marks a definite direct object.

Here, הערובה is definite because it has ה־, so Hebrew uses את:

• ישיב את הערובה

This את usually does not get translated into English. It is just a grammar marker.

Compare:

• הוא מחזיר ערובה = he returns a deposit / security
• הוא מחזיר את הערובה = he returns the deposit / the security

So for learners, a good shortcut is: if the direct object is definite, expect את.

The ש־ is a prefix, so it is written attached to the following word.

Here:

• בגלל ש־ = because
• שפרוטוקול = that / because the report...

So בגלל שפרוטוקול... means because the report...

This is very normal in Hebrew. Several short grammatical elements attach to the next word, such as:

• ו־ = and
• ב־ = in
• ל־ = to
• כ־ = as / like
• ש־ = that / which / because in some structures

Yes. בגלל ש is very common and natural.

It is often used in everyday Hebrew, and it is fully understandable here. Depending on style, some alternatives can sound more formal, such as:

• מפני ש
• מאחר ש
• כיוון ש

So if you are wondering whether בגלל ש is correct, the answer is yes. It may feel slightly less formal than some other connectors, but it is still very common.

This is a noun chain in Hebrew, often called a construct chain.

It works like:

• פרוטוקול = protocol / report
• מצב הדירה = the condition of the apartment

Together:

• פרוטוקול מצב הדירה = the apartment condition report / the report of the apartment’s condition

Hebrew often prefers this compact noun-chain structure instead of using של.

So instead of something like:

• פרוטוקול של מצב הדירה

you often get the tighter, more formal-feeling:

• פרוטוקול מצב הדירה

This style is especially common in administrative, legal, and bureaucratic Hebrew.

Because in a construct chain, the first noun usually does not take the definite article. The definiteness is determined later in the chain.

Here, the final noun is הדירה = the apartment, which makes the whole chain definite:

• מצב הדירה = the condition of the apartment
• פרוטוקול מצב הדירה = the report of the apartment’s condition

So even without ה־ on פרוטוקול, the whole phrase can still be understood as definite.

This is a very important Hebrew pattern.

Here, מראה is a verb, not a noun.

It is the present-tense form meaning shows, from להראות = to show.

So:

• פרוטוקול מצב הדירה מראה...
• The apartment condition report shows...

This can confuse learners because מראה can also be a noun in other contexts, such as appearance or mirror, depending on the word and context. But in this sentence, it is clearly the verb shows.

Because its subject is singular:

• פרוטוקול מצב הדירה = one report

So the verb is singular too:

• מראה = shows

If the subject were plural, the verb would change:

• הפרוטוקולים מראים = the reports show

The verb agrees with the subject, not with a nearby noun like הדירה.

In Hebrew, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• בלאי = wear
• סביר = reasonable

Together:

• בלאי סביר = reasonable wear

Also, the adjective must agree with the noun in gender and number. Here both are masculine singular:

• בלאי = masculine singular
• סביר = masculine singular adjective form

This noun + adjective order is one of the most basic Hebrew patterns:

• בית גדול = big house
• בעיה רצינית = serious problem
• בלאי סביר = reasonable wear

Yes. The sentence uses a very normal subject + verb + object pattern at the start:

• המשכיר = subject
• ישיב = verb
• את הערובה = object

So:

• המשכיר ישיב את הערובה

Hebrew allows more than one word order, but this one is especially clear and common in formal writing. It puts the focus first on the responsible party, the landlord / lessor, which fits the legal-administrative tone of the sentence.