Questions & Answers about לפני הטיסה אני תמיד בודקת אם הדרכון שלי בתיק.
Because בודקת is the feminine singular present-tense form.
Hebrew present-tense verbs change for gender and number:
- בודק = checking / checks, masculine singular
- בודקת = checking / checks, feminine singular
- בודקים = masculine plural
- בודקות = feminine plural
So this sentence is spoken by a female speaker.
If a man were saying it, it would be:
לפני הטיסה אני תמיד בודק אם הדרכון שלי בתיק.
Yes. In Modern Hebrew, forms like בודק / בודקת are the normal way to express the present tense.
They originally come from a participle-like form, but for learners it is simplest to treat them as the present tense:
- אני בודקת = I check / I am checking
- היא בודקת = she checks / she is checking
So in this sentence, אני תמיד בודקת means I always check.