אם המנהלת לא זמינה עכשיו, אפשר לדחות את השיחה למחר.

Because it describes המנהלת (the manager, feminine). In Hebrew, adjectives usually agree with the noun in gender and number.

• masculine singular: זמין
• feminine singular: זמינה

So המנהלת לא זמינה means the manager is not available.

אם means if. It introduces a condition:

• אם המנהלת לא זמינה עכשיו = If the manager is not available now

This is a very common way to start conditional sentences in Hebrew.

In present-tense Hebrew, the verb to be is usually omitted.

So instead of saying something like the manager is not available, Hebrew simply says:

• המנהלת לא זמינה

Literally, that is closer to the manager not available, but it naturally means the manager is not available.

אפשר means something like it is possible, one can, or it’s possible to.

In this sentence:

• אפשר לדחות את השיחה למחר

it means it’s possible to postpone the conversation/call until tomorrow.

This is a very common impersonal structure in Hebrew. It often works like English you can or we can, even though no specific subject is stated.

Because after אפשר, Hebrew normally uses an infinitive.

• אפשר + infinitive
• אפשר לדחות = it’s possible to postpone

The infinitive לדחות means to postpone or to delay.

את marks a definite direct object.

Since השיחה means the conversation / the call and is definite because of ה־ (the), Hebrew uses את before it:

• לדחות את השיחה = to postpone the conversation / call

You would not usually translate את into English; it is a grammar marker.

In this sentence, למחר means until tomorrow or for tomorrow.

• לדחות את השיחה למחר = postpone the call/conversation until tomorrow

If you said just מחר, that would more directly mean tomorrow. But with verbs like postpone, Hebrew very often uses ל־ to show the new time something is moved to.

It can mean either, depending on context.

• שיחה = conversation
• very often also = phone call

In business or scheduling contexts, לדחות את השיחה למחר often sounds like postpone the call until tomorrow, but conversation is also a valid general meaning.

The comma separates the conditional clause from the main clause:

• אם המנהלת לא זמינה עכשיו, = If the manager isn’t available now,
• אפשר לדחות את השיחה למחר. = it’s possible to postpone the call until tomorrow.

This is similar to English punctuation with an if-clause at the beginning.

Yes. You could say:

• אם המנהלת לא זמינה, אפשר לדחות את השיחה למחר.

That means If the manager isn’t available, we can postpone the call until tomorrow.

Adding עכשיו makes it more specific: the manager is unavailable right now, not necessarily in general.

Because of the prefix ה־, which means the.

• מנהלת = a manager / manager
• המנהלת = the manager

So the sentence refers to a specific manager, not just any manager.

Yes, מנהלת is the feminine form meaning female manager. The masculine form is מנהל.

So:

• המנהל לא זמין = the male manager is not available
• המנהלת לא זמינה = the female manager is not available

Hebrew usually marks gender much more clearly than English does.

Yes, in natural English translation, it often comes out as we can:

• אפשר לדחות את השיחה למחר = we can postpone the call until tomorrow

But grammatically, Hebrew is being more impersonal. It is not literally saying we. It is saying something closer to it is possible to postpone the call until tomorrow.

לדחות comes from the root ד-ח-ה, connected with pushing away, postponing, or rejecting.

The basic past form is:

• דחה = he postponed / rejected

The infinitive is:

• לדחות = to postpone

It may look slightly unusual because Hebrew infinitives are built from verb patterns, not just by adding one simple ending like English -to forms. So it is best to learn לדחות as the standard infinitive form of this verb.

Yes. ניתן לדחות את השיחה למחר is also correct and means something like it is possible to postpone the call until tomorrow.

Compared with אפשר, ניתן often sounds a bit more formal or written. In everyday speech, אפשר is very common and natural.