בסוף השיעור אני הולך הביתה.

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Breakdown of בסוף השיעור אני הולך הביתה.

• ללכת: to go
• ב: at
• שיעור: lesson

Questions & Answers about בסוף השיעור אני הולך הביתה.

What does בסוף השיעור mean literally, and what is the ב־ doing?

בסוף השיעור literally means at the end of the lesson/class.

• ב־ is the preposition in / at
• סוף means end
• השיעור means the lesson / the class

So word-for-word, it is something like at the end of the class.

Also, סוף השיעור is a kind of noun pair meaning the end of the lesson. Hebrew often builds this idea by putting two nouns together, where the second one tells you what the first belongs to.

Why is it השיעור and not just שיעור?

Because the sentence is talking about a specific lesson or class: the class, not just a class in general.

In Hebrew, in the expression סוף השיעור, the definiteness is shown on the second noun:

• סוף שיעור = end of a lesson
• סוף השיעור = end of the lesson

A native English speaker may expect something more like at the end of class, with no the, but Hebrew often uses the definite form in places where English sounds more general.

Why do we need אני? Doesn’t הולך already mean I go?