כשאני חוזרת הביתה, אני כותבת אימייל לחברה.

When I return home, I write an email to a female friend.

Breakdown of כשאני חוזרת הביתה, אני כותבת אימייל לחברה.

• אני: I
• חברה: female friend
• ל: to
• הביתה: home

Questions & Answers about כשאני חוזרת הביתה, אני כותבת אימייל לחברה.

What does כשאני mean, and why is it written as one word?

כש means when, and Hebrew often attaches short prefixes directly to the following word.

So:

כשאני = כש + אני = when I

This is very common in Hebrew. You will also see forms like:

• כשאתה = when you
• כשהיא = when she
• כשאנחנו = when we

Why are חוזרת and כותבת in the feminine form?

Because the speaker is female.

In Hebrew present tense, verbs agree with the subject in gender and number.
So a female speaker says:

• אני חוזרת = I return / I am returning
• אני כותבת = I write / I am writing

A male speaker would say:

• אני חוזר
• אני כותב

So the sentence tells you that the speaker is a woman.

Why are the verbs in present-tense forms here?