דיברנו לאחרונה.

We spoke recently.

Breakdown of דיברנו לאחרונה.

• לדבר: to speak
• לאחרונה: recently

Questions & Answers about דיברנו לאחרונה.

How do you pronounce 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.

What does דיברנו mean exactly, and how is it built?

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.

Why isn’t there a separate word for we in the sentence?