Questions & Answers about אתמול החתול היה במטבח, והכלב היה בחדר.
אתמול means yesterday. It is a time expression, and Hebrew very often puts time words near the beginning of the sentence to set the scene.
So:
- אתמול החתול היה במטבח = Yesterday the cat was in the kitchen
You could move אתמול later in the sentence, but the version here is very natural and common.
ה־ is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the.
So:
- חתול = a cat / cat
- החתול = the cat
- כלב = a dog / dog
- הכלב = the dog
Unlike English, Hebrew adds the directly to the beginning of the word.