Questions & Answers about עברנו לשכונה חדשה לפני שבוע.
What tense and person is עברנו?
עברנו is past tense, first-person plural: we moved.
A helpful way to break it down is:
- עבר = the verb base from the root ע-ב-ר
- -נו = the ending for we in the past tense
So עברנו already tells you both the action and the subject.
Why is there no separate word for we in the sentence?
Because Hebrew verbs often already include the subject.
In עברנו, the ending -נו tells you the subject is we, so adding אנחנו is usually unnecessary.
You can say אנחנו עברנו לשכונה חדשה לפני שבוע, but that sounds more emphatic, like we moved, not someone else.
Why does עברנו mean moved here? I thought עבר meant something like passed or crossed.