הברית חשובה.

In Hebrew, present-tense sentences often do not use a separate word for is / am / are.

So:

• הברית חשובה = The covenant is important

There is no present-tense equivalent of is here. This is completely normal Hebrew.

Compare:

• הילד עייף = The boy is tired
• העיר גדולה = The city is big

But in past or future, Hebrew does use a verb:

• הברית הייתה חשובה = The covenant was important
• הברית תהיה חשובה = The covenant will be important

The ה is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the.

So:

• ברית = covenant / pact / alliance
• הברית = the covenant / the pact / the alliance

This ה is very common in Hebrew and is attached directly to the noun.

Examples:

• ספר = book
• הספר = the book

In Hebrew, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• הברית חשובה literally follows the pattern the covenant important

This is the normal Hebrew word order for noun + adjective.

More examples:

• בית גדול = a big house
• אישה חכמה = a smart woman
• הספר מעניין = the book is interesting

For a simple sentence like this, that order is exactly what you should expect.

Because ברית is a feminine singular noun, the adjective must match it in gender and number.

• חשוב = masculine singular
• חשובה = feminine singular

Since ברית is feminine, Hebrew uses:

• הברית חשובה

This agreement is a basic feature of Hebrew grammar.

A few comparisons:

• הספר חשוב = The book is important
  (ספר is masculine)
• הברית חשובה = The covenant is important
  (ברית is feminine)

You usually have to learn the gender of each noun, because Hebrew noun gender is not always predictable from meaning alone.

ברית is simply a noun that is grammatically feminine. One clue is that many feminine nouns in Hebrew fit patterns like this, but in the end it is still vocabulary you memorize together with the word.

A good habit is to learn new nouns with an adjective or number so the gender becomes more natural:

• ברית חשובה = feminine
• ברית חדשה = feminine

That helps reinforce that ברית takes feminine agreement.

It is pronounced approximately ha-BRIT.

A more detailed breakdown:

• ה = ha
• ברית = brit

So together:

• הברית = ha-brit

The stress is usually on the last syllable: ha-BRIT.

It is pronounced approximately kha-shu-VA.

Notes:

• The first sound ח is not like English h. It is a guttural sound, like the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach.
• The stress is usually on the last syllable: kha-shu-VA.

So the whole sentence is roughly:

• ha-BRIT kha-shu-VA

In Hebrew, when an adjective modifies a noun directly, both noun and adjective usually take definiteness:

• הברית החשובה = the important covenant

But in your sentence, חשובה is not being used inside a noun phrase like the important covenant. It is functioning as the predicate of the sentence:

• הברית חשובה = The covenant is important

So only the noun has the. This is the same difference as:

• הברית החשובה = the important covenant
• הברית חשובה = the covenant is important

Yes, but it sounds more marked, literary, poetic, or emphatic.

The normal, neutral word order is:

• הברית חשובה

If you say:

• חשובה הברית

it can sound like you are emphasizing important or using a more stylistic tone.

For beginners, the standard form to use is definitely:

• הברית חשובה

Both the noun and adjective would change to feminine plural.

• ברית = singular
• בריתות = plural

And:

• חשובה = feminine singular
• חשובות = feminine plural

So:

• בריתות חשובות = important covenants
• הבריתות חשובות = the covenants are important

This is a useful example of how Hebrew agreement works across number as well as gender.

Because most modern Hebrew is normally written without niqqud (vowel marks).

So everyday Hebrew writing usually looks like this:

• הברית חשובה

With vowel marks, it could be written more explicitly as:

• הַבְּרִית חֲשׁוּבָה

Beginners often see vowel marks in textbooks, prayer books, children’s books, or dictionaries, but native materials usually leave them out. Learning to read unpointed Hebrew is an important skill.