נפגשנו בבר אחרי העבודה.

A natural breakdown is:

• נפגשנו = we met
• בבר = in/at the bar or in/at a bar depending on context
• אחרי = after
• העבודה = the work / work

So the structure is:

• verb: נפגשנו
• place: בבר
• time: אחרי העבודה

Hebrew often builds sentences in this straightforward order: verb + place + time.

נפגשנו is a fully inflected verb meaning we met.

It contains:

• the verb stem נפגש-
• the ending -נו, which means we in the past tense

So Hebrew does not need a separate word for we here. The subject is already built into the verb.

More specifically:

• root: פ-ג-ש
• basic idea of the root: meeting / encountering

So נפגשנו literally means we met.

This is a very common question.

• פגשנו usually means we met someone/something
• נפגשנו means we met or we met each other

Examples:

• פגשנו את דני = We met Danny
• נפגשנו עם דני or simply נפגשנו = We met / We got together

So in your sentence, נפגשנו is the right choice because the idea is that we met up, not that we encountered someone as a direct object.

No. In the first person plural past tense, Hebrew does not mark gender here.

So נפגשנו can mean:

• we (all male)
• we (all female)
• we (mixed group)

The same form works for all of them.

Because ב־ is a preposition prefix in Hebrew. It attaches directly to the following noun.

Here:

• ב־ = in / at
• בר = bar

So:

• בבר = in/at a bar or in/at the bar

This is very normal in Hebrew. Short prepositions are often attached to nouns:

• בבית = in the house / at home
• למשרד = to the office
• מהעיר = from the city

In unpointed Hebrew spelling, בבר can represent either:

• בְּבַר = in/at a bar
• בַּבָּר = in/at the bar

Since modern Hebrew is usually written without vowel marks, the spelling looks the same.

So how do you know which one is meant?
Context decides.

In English, we often say at the bar or at a bar depending on the situation. Hebrew writing without vowels often leaves that distinction unstated unless the context makes it clear.

Also, although ב־ literally means in, English often translates it as at when talking about locations:

• נפגשנו בבית קפה = We met at a café
• not necessarily in a café in the English sense

Because Hebrew often uses the definite form where English uses a more general expression.

So:

• אחרי העבודה literally = after the work
• but in natural English it often means simply after work

This is very idiomatic. Hebrew frequently says the where English does not.

Compare:

• אחרי העבודה = after work
• אחרי הלימודים = after school / after classes

If you said אחרי עבודה, it would usually sound less natural here, or it could suggest after a piece of work / after some job/task rather than the routine idea of after work.

The given order is completely natural, but Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible.

Your sentence:

• נפגשנו בבר אחרי העבודה

You could also say:

• נפגשנו אחרי העבודה בבר

Both are grammatical. The difference is mostly about flow or emphasis:

• בבר אחרי העבודה puts the place first after the verb
• אחרי העבודה בבר puts the time first after the verb

The original version sounds very natural in everyday speech.

A common pronunciation is:

nifgáshnu ba-bar acharei ha-avodá

A rough breakdown:

• נפגשנו = nif-GASH-nu
• בבר = ba-BAR or be-BAR, depending on whether it is understood as the bar or a bar
• אחרי = a-cha-REI
• העבודה = ha-a-vo-DA

In normal speech, העבודה may sound slightly smoothed together, but the main stress is on the last syllable: avodá.