Word
אני מסדרת את החדר לפני הפגישה.
Meaning
I am tidying the room before the meeting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about אני מסדרת את החדר לפני הפגישה.
Why is אני included? Doesn’t מסדרת already mean I arrange / I am arranging?
Not by itself. In the present tense, Hebrew verb forms usually show gender and number, but not person.
So מסדרת can mean:
- I arrange / I am arranging if the speaker is feminine
- you arrange / you are arranging when speaking to one female
- she arranges / she is arranging
That is why אני is important here: it tells you the subject is I.
Why is it מסדרת and not מסדר?
Because the sentence is spoken by a female speaker.
- אני מסדרת את החדר לפני הפגישה. = said by a woman
- אני מסדר את החדר לפני הפגישה. = said by a man
In the Hebrew present tense, the verb agrees with the speaker’s gender.
What exactly is מסדרת grammatically?