Breakdown of נרתיק המשקפיים מחזיק את משקפי הקריאה.
Questions & Answers about נרתיק המשקפיים מחזיק את משקפי הקריאה.
This is a very common Hebrew structure called סמיכות (construct state).
In Hebrew, two nouns are often put together directly to mean X of Y or Y X:
- נרתיק המשקפיים = the glasses case / literally the case of the glasses
In a construct chain:
- the first noun usually does not take ה
- the second noun shows whether the whole phrase is definite
So:
- נרתיק המשקפיים = the glasses case
- נרתיק משקפיים = a glasses case
You can also say הנרתיק של המשקפיים, but that sounds more like the case of the glasses in a more explicit of structure. The construct form is shorter and very common.