היא סבלה כל הלילה.

she

Breakdown of היא סבלה כל הלילה.

• לילה: night
• כל: all
• לסבול: to suffer; endure

Questions & Answers about היא סבלה כל הלילה.

How do you pronounce this sentence?

A natural Modern Hebrew pronunciation is:

hi savlá kol ha-LAI-la

Word by word:

• היא = hi
• סבלה = savlá
• כל = kol
• הלילה = ha-LAI-la

The main stress falls on -vlá in סבלה and on LAI in הלילה.

Why does סבלה end in -ה?

Because the verb is in the past tense, 3rd person feminine singular.

So:

• סבל = he suffered
• סבלה = she suffered

The -ה ending is a very common marker for she in the Hebrew past tense.

What is the dictionary form of סבלה?

The dictionary form is לסבול, meaning to suffer.

This is very normal in Hebrew: the past-tense form does not always look exactly like the infinitive.
Here the root is ס־ב־ל.

So you might learn:

• לסבול = to suffer
• היא סבלה = she suffered