המורה ביקשה שנגיש את הדף הראשון היום ואת הדף השני מחר.

Because המורה can mean either the male teacher or the female teacher, and the verb tells you which one is meant here.

• ביקשה = she asked / she requested
• ביקש = he asked / he requested

So this sentence is talking about a female teacher.

It is made of two parts:

• ש־ = that
• נגיש = we will submit / we will hand in

So literally, שנגיש is something like that we submit or that we will hand in.

In natural English, after asked, we often say asked us to submit, but Hebrew commonly uses this ש + future verb structure.

This is very normal in Hebrew.

After verbs like asked, wanted, said, hoped, and similar verbs, Hebrew often uses:

• a main verb
• followed by ש־
• followed by a future-form verb

So even though ביקשה is past, נגיש is future because it refers to the action that is supposed to happen after the request.

So the pattern is basically:

• המורה ביקשה שנגיש...
• The teacher asked that we submit...

This is one of the most common things English speakers need to get used to in Hebrew.

It is built into the verb נגיש.

Hebrew verbs often include the subject inside the verb itself. In this case:

• נגיש = we will submit

The prefix נ־ often marks we in the future tense.

So Hebrew does not need a separate word for we here, though you could add אנחנו for emphasis in some contexts.

את is the direct object marker. It appears before a definite direct object.

Here, both objects are definite:

• את הדף הראשון
• את הדף השני

Because both mean specific pages — the first page, the second page — Hebrew uses את before them.

Important: את usually is not translated into English. It is a grammatical marker, not a word with a separate meaning here.

Because ואת is simply:

• ו־ = and
• את = direct object marker

So ואת הדף השני means and the second page as another definite direct object.

Hebrew repeats את for the second coordinated object because it belongs to that noun phrase too.

In Hebrew, adjectives usually come after the noun, not before it.

So:

• דף ראשון = a first page
• הדף הראשון = the first page

This includes ordinal numbers like ראשון and שני when they are used adjectivally.

So the Hebrew order is:

• noun first
• adjective second

That is why you get הדף הראשון and הדף השני.

Because in Hebrew, when a noun is definite and it has an adjective, the adjective must also be definite.

So:

• הדף הראשון = the first page
• הספר הגדול = the big book
• הילדה הקטנה = the little girl

You do not usually say הדף ראשון if you mean the first page. The adjective also needs ה־.

Because דף is a masculine noun.

In Hebrew, adjectives and ordinal numbers agree with the noun in gender and number. Since דף is masculine singular, the ordinals must also be masculine singular:

• הדף הראשון
• הדף השני

If the noun were feminine, the form would change. For example:

• המחברת הראשונה = the first notebook

They are time expressions:

• היום = today
• מחר = tomorrow

In this sentence, each one is placed right after the page it refers to:

• את הדף הראשון היום
• ואת הדף השני מחר

This makes the timing very clear:

• first page → today
• second page → tomorrow

Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible, but this order is very natural and easy to understand.

Yes, that is also possible, but the structure changes.

For example:

• המורה ביקשה מאיתנו להגיש את הדף הראשון היום ואת הדף השני מחר.

That means essentially the same thing: The teacher asked us to submit the first page today and the second page tomorrow.

The version in your sentence, ביקשה שנגיש, is also very natural. It is closer to asked that we submit.

So both are good Hebrew, but they use different grammar:

• ביקשה שנגיש...
• ביקשה מאיתנו להגיש...

Usually asked is the most natural translation in everyday English, but requested is also possible depending on tone.

• ביקש / ביקשה can mean asked
• in more formal contexts, it can also feel like requested

So in a classroom sentence like this, asked is usually the best choice.

It is pronounced as one connected unit in normal speech, because ש־ is a prefix attached to the verb.

So learners should think of it not as two separate words, but as:

• ש + נגיש = שנגיש

This is very common in Hebrew. The ש־ prefix attaches directly to the following word.