אין לי איפה לשים את סל הכביסה, כי החדר הקטן כבר מלא.

Literally, אין לי means there is not to me.

Hebrew usually does not use a normal verb for to have in the present tense. Instead, it expresses possession with:

• יש לי = I have / literally there is to me
• אין לי = I don’t have / literally there is not to me

So:

• אין לי איפה לשים... = I have nowhere to put...

This is a very common Hebrew pattern.

Yes, איפה usually means where, but in this kind of sentence it means something like somewhere / a place where.

So:

• אין לי איפה לשים את סל הכביסה
  literally: I don’t have where to put the laundry basket
• natural English: I have nowhere to put the laundry basket

This is a very normal colloquial Hebrew structure. A more explicit version would be:

• אין לי מקום לשים את סל הכביסה = I don’t have a place to put the laundry basket

So אין לי איפה... is a very natural way to say I have nowhere to...

לשים is the infinitive, meaning to put.

After expressions like יש לי איפה... or אין לי איפה..., Hebrew often uses an infinitive to describe the action:

• יש לי איפה לשבת = I have somewhere to sit
• אין לי איפה לישון = I have nowhere to sleep
• אין לי איפה לשים את סל הכביסה = I have nowhere to put the laundry basket

So the pattern is:

• אין לי איפה + infinitive

את is the marker of a definite direct object.

It does not translate into English, but it tells you that the noun that follows is the specific thing receiving the action.

Here:

• לשים את סל הכביסה = to put the laundry basket

You use את because סל הכביסה is definite here.

Compare:

• אני רואה ספר = I see a book
• אני רואה את הספר = I see the book

So in your sentence, את marks סל הכביסה as the specific basket being talked about.

סל הכביסה is a construct chain, called סמיכות in Hebrew. It is a very common way to express X of Y.

So:

• סל הכביסה = the basket of the laundry = the laundry basket

This is more natural and compact than using של here.

A few similar examples:

• חדר השינה = the bedroom
• דלת הבית = the door of the house
• סל הכביסה = the laundry basket

You could sometimes use של, but סל הכביסה is the standard, natural phrasing.

In a construct chain, the definiteness of the whole phrase is determined by the second noun.

So:

• סל כביסה = a laundry basket
• סל הכביסה = the laundry basket

Even though סל itself does not get ה־, the whole phrase becomes definite because הכביסה is definite.

That is why the phrase can take את:

• לשים את סל הכביסה

Because the sentence is referring to a specific room: the small room, not just a small room.

In Hebrew, when a noun is definite, the adjective must also be definite.

So:

• חדר קטן = a small room
• החדר הקטן = the small room

Both the noun and the adjective get ה־.

This is a very important rule in Hebrew adjective agreement.

Because חדר is a masculine singular noun, and the adjective must agree with it.

• חדר = masculine singular
• therefore: מלא = masculine singular full

Compare:

• החדר מלא = the room is full
• הקופסה מלאה = the box is full
• החדרים מלאים = the rooms are full
• הקופסאות מלאות = the boxes are full

So מלא matches החדר.

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

So:

• החדר הקטן כבר מלא
  literally: the small room already full
• natural English: the small room is already full

This is completely normal Hebrew.

Compare:

• הוא עייף = He is tired
• הבית גדול = The house is big
• החדר מלא = The room is full

Hebrew normally does not say is in the present tense.

כבר means already.

In this sentence:

• כי החדר הקטן כבר מלא = because the small room is already full

It adds the idea that the room has reached that state already, so there is no more space.

A few examples:

• אני כבר יודע = I already know
• הם כבר פה = They are already here
• זה כבר מאוחר = It is already late

כי is the most common everyday word for because / that, depending on context.

Here it means because:

• כי החדר הקטן כבר מלא = because the small room is already full

It is very common in spoken and written Hebrew.

There are other ways to say because, such as מפני ש־ or בגלל ש־, but כי is simple and very common.

It is very natural and common in everyday Hebrew, especially in speech.

A slightly more explicit version would be:

• אין לי מקום לשים את סל הכביסה

Both are correct, but אין לי איפה לשים... often sounds more natural in casual conversation.

So a learner should definitely recognize and use this pattern.

Both.

You can understand the parts individually:

• אין לי = I don’t have
• איפה = where / somewhere
• לשים = to put
• את סל הכביסה = the laundry basket
• כי = because
• החדר הקטן = the small room
• כבר = already
• מלא = full

But it is especially useful to learn these as chunks:

• אין לי איפה + infinitive = I have nowhere to...
• ה־ + noun + ה־ + adjective = the + noun + adjective
• noun + adjective without is in the present tense

That makes it much easier to produce similar sentences on your own.