דיברנו לאחרונה.

It is pronounced roughly:

dibárnu le-aḥaroná

A more detailed breakdown:

• דיברנו = di-BAR-nu
• לאחרונה = le-a-kha-ro-NA

Notes:

• The ח sound in לאחרונה is the throaty Hebrew sound, like ch in German Bach, not like English ch in chair.
• The stress is usually on the last syllable of each word here:
  • diBARnu
  • le-aḥaroNA

With vowel marks, it would typically be written something like דִּיבַּרְנוּ לְאַחֲרוֹנָה.

דיברנו means we spoke or we talked.

It breaks down like this:

• דיבר = he spoke / he talked
• -נו = we

So דיברנו literally means we spoke.

In Hebrew, subject information is often built into the verb, so you do not need a separate word for we.

Because Hebrew verbs usually already show who did the action.

In דיברנו, the ending -נו tells you the subject is we. So אנחנו is not necessary.

You could say:

• אנחנו דיברנו לאחרונה

but that usually adds emphasis, like:

• We spoke recently

In normal conversation, דיברנו לאחרונה is completely natural.

Formally, דיברנו is a past tense form: we spoke / we talked.

But in actual English translation, depending on context, it can also match:

• we spoke recently
• we talked recently
• we have spoken recently

Hebrew does not have a separate present-perfect form like English have spoken. So the simple past form often covers both ideas, depending on the situation.

לאחרונה means recently or lately.

Yes, it is very common.

In this sentence:

• דיברנו לאחרונה = We spoke recently / We’ve talked recently

It is an adverb here, describing when the speaking happened.

Literally, לאחרונה comes from the idea of the last/recent period.

It is related to:

• אחרון = last
• אחרונה = last (feminine)

The word לאחרונה has developed into a fixed adverb meaning recently / lately.

So even though its history is more literal, in everyday Hebrew you should understand it simply as:

• recently
• lately

It comes from the root ד־ב־ר.

This root is connected with speech or speaking in this verb.

The verb here is in the pi'el pattern:

• דיבר = he spoke
• דיברנו = we spoke

This is useful because once you know the root and pattern, it becomes easier to recognize related forms such as:

• מדבר = speaking / speaks (depending on context)
• לדבר = to speak

Usually it can mean either we spoke or we talked, depending on context.

In many situations, English might prefer:

• We talked recently

especially if two people had a conversation with each other.

But grammatically, Hebrew דיברנו by itself does not explicitly say with each other. Context tells you that.

If you wanted to be more explicit, you could say things like:

• דיברנו אחד עם השני לאחרונה = We talked to each other recently
• דיברנו לאחרונה בטלפון = We spoke recently on the phone

Yes. Hebrew word order is fairly flexible.

The neutral order here is:

• דיברנו לאחרונה = We spoke recently

But you could also hear:

• לאחרונה דיברנו

That puts more focus on recently, something like:

• Recently, we spoke
• As for recently, we did speak

So the original sentence is the most straightforward and neutral version, but other orders are possible for emphasis.

No. דיברנו does not show gender.

The form we spoke is the same whether the speakers are:

• all male
• all female
• mixed

So דיברנו לאחרונה works for any group of we.

Yes, often you can.

For example:

• דיברנו לאחרונה = We spoke recently
• דיברנו בזמן האחרון = We’ve spoken lately / in recent times

There is a small difference in feel:

• לאחרונה is a compact adverb: recently / lately
• בזמן האחרון literally means in the last period / lately, and can feel a bit more like an ongoing recent stretch of time

In many everyday contexts, both are natural.