כשהיינו עובדים ביחד, היא הייתה ממשיכה לעבוד גם כשהייתי כבר עייפה.

כשהיינו עובדים uses the past habitual pattern: היינו + participle. It means something like we used to work or we would be working.

• כשהיינו עובדים ביחד = when we used to work together
• כשעבדנו ביחד usually means when we worked together as a simple past fact

So the version in the sentence emphasizes a repeated situation in the past, not just a single event.

This is another example of the past habitual structure.

• היא הייתה ממשיכה לעבוד = she would keep working / she used to keep working
• היא המשיכה לעבוד = she continued working in a more straightforward past sense, often referring to a specific occasion or event

The sentence is describing a typical pattern in the past: whenever they worked together, she would keep going even when the speaker was already tired.

So הייתה ממשיכה gives the sense of repeated behavior.

These are built from:

1. A past form of להיות (to be)
2. A participle (sometimes called the present-tense form)

So:

• היינו עובדים = we were / used to be working
  • היינו = we were
  • עובדים = working / workers form, here meaning working
• הייתה ממשיכה = she would keep / used to continue
  • הייתה = she was
  • ממשיכה = continuing

This pattern is very common in Hebrew for habitual past actions.

Hebrew uses the masculine plural as the default plural form when:

• the group is mixed-gender, or
• gender is not being specified

So היינו עובדים can mean:

• a group of men
• a mixed group
• sometimes a general plural in context

If the group were definitely all female, it would be:

• כשהיינו עובדות ביחד

So the sentence does not necessarily mean the speaker is male. The speaker’s gender is actually shown later by עייפה.

Yes. עייפה is feminine singular, so the speaker is female.

• male speaker: כשהייתי כבר עייף
• female speaker: כשהייתי כבר עייפה

So this sentence is being said by a woman.

In Hebrew, the verb to be is usually not expressed in the present tense, but it is expressed in the past and future.

So:

• Present: אני עייפה = I am tired
• Past: הייתי עייפה = I was tired
• Future: אהיה עייפה = I will be tired

That is why the sentence says כשהייתי כבר עייפה and not just כשאני עייפה.

Because there are two time clauses:

1. כשהיינו עובדים ביחד = when we used to work together
2. כשהייתי כבר עייפה = when I was already tired

So the sentence has a main past-habitual statement in the middle:

• היא הייתה ממשיכה לעבוד

And it is framed by two time references:

• When we used to work together
• even when I was already tired

This is perfectly normal in Hebrew.

Here גם means even in the sense of even when.

• גם כשהייתי כבר עייפה = even when I was already tired

Literally, גם often means also / too, but in this kind of structure it can express even:

• גם אם... = even if...
• גם כש... = even when...

So its placement is natural: it introduces the idea that what she did remained true even under that condition.

כבר means already.

So:

• כשהייתי עייפה = when I was tired
• כשהייתי כבר עייפה = when I was already tired

It adds the idea that by that point, the speaker had reached that state already. It helps show contrast:

• I was already tired,
• but she still kept working.

Both mean together in many contexts.

• ביחד is very common in everyday speech
• יחד is also common and can sound a little shorter or slightly more formal/literary depending on context

In this sentence, both would work:

• כשהיינו עובדים ביחד
• כשהיינו עובדים יחד

There is no major meaning difference here.

The verb להמשיך often takes another verb in the infinitive, just like English continue to do or keep doing.

So:

• להמשיך לעבוד = to continue working
• היא ממשיכה לעבוד = she continues to work / keeps working
• היא הייתה ממשיכה לעבוד = she would keep working

This is a very normal verb pattern in Hebrew.

Yes. In fact, would is often a very good match here.

• When we used to work together, she would keep working even when I was already tired.

That works well because the Hebrew is describing repeated past behavior.

In many cases, Hebrew היה/הייתה/היינו + participle can match English:

• used to
• would
• sometimes was/were ...-ing, depending on context

Here would sounds especially natural because it describes what she repeatedly did.

Yes, Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible, though some versions sound more natural than others.

For example, you could say:

• היא הייתה ממשיכה לעבוד גם כשהייתי כבר עייפה, כשהיינו עובדים ביחד.

But the original order is better because it sets the scene first:

• כשהיינו עובדים ביחד = background/context
• היא הייתה ממשיכה לעבוד = main action
• גם כשהייתי כבר עייפה = contrast/additional condition

So the given sentence is very natural and well-structured.

It is about a repeated pattern in the past.

Several things show that:

• כשהיינו עובדים = when we used to work
• הייתה ממשיכה = she would keep working

If you wanted a single occasion, Hebrew would more likely use simpler past forms, for example:

• כשעבדנו ביחד, היא המשיכה לעבוד גם כשכבר הייתי עייפה.

That version sounds more like a particular past event. The original sounds like this is how it usually went.