בעלת הבית מבקשת שנשלם את שכר הדירה עד סוף השבוע.

בעלת הבית literally means the female owner of the house/home. In real usage, it can mean different things depending on context:

• landlady
• hostess
• woman of the house

Because the sentence talks about paying rent, the natural meaning here is landlady.

Also, בעלת is the feminine form of בעל.

This is a construct chain (called סמיכות in Hebrew).

In a construct chain, the first noun usually does not take ה־, even if the whole phrase is definite. The definiteness shows up on the second noun.

So:

• בעלת בית = a landlady / female owner of a house
• בעלת הבית = the landlady / the female owner of the house

The ה־ on הבית makes the whole phrase definite.

Because it agrees with the subject בעלת הבית, which is feminine singular.

So:

• מבקש = masculine singular
• מבקשת = feminine singular

Since the subject is a woman, Hebrew uses מבקשת.

Yes, מבקשת is present tense.

In Modern Hebrew, the present tense often covers both:

• asks
• is asking

So this form can mean either one, depending on context. Hebrew does not usually make the same simple-vs.-progressive distinction that English does.

The prefix ש־ means that.

So:

• מבקשת שנשלם = asks that we pay

It introduces a subordinate clause. In modern Hebrew, this little ש־ is extremely common and is usually attached directly to the next word.

After verbs like לבקש, Hebrew often uses ש־ plus a future-tense verb to express what someone wants or requests to happen.

So:

• מבקשת שנשלם = she asks that we pay

Here נשלם is future tense, first person plural:

• נ־ = we
• נשלם = we will pay

Even though it is literally future in form, after מבקשת ש־ it functions a lot like English that we pay.

Yes, absolutely. That would also be natural.

Compare:

• מבקשת שנשלם = she asks that we pay
• מבקשת מאיתנו לשלם = she asks us to pay

Both are good Hebrew. The version with שנשלם focuses on the whole clause that we pay, while the version with מאיתנו לשלם explicitly includes from us / us.

את marks a definite direct object.

It does not have its own English translation here. It simply tells you that the noun phrase following it is the direct object of the verb.

So in this sentence:

• נשלם את שכר הדירה
• שכר הדירה is the thing being paid

Because שכר הדירה is definite, Hebrew uses את.

This is another construct chain.

• שכר = pay, wage, fee, rent
• דירה = apartment
• שכר דירה = rent / apartment rent

When the second noun is definite, the whole construct phrase becomes definite:

• שכר דירה = rent
• שכר הדירה = the rent

That is why it can take את.

Literally, שכר is related to payment, wages, or fee, depending on context.

In the phrase שכר דירה, it means rent, more literally something like payment for an apartment.

This is just the normal Hebrew expression for rent.

In this sentence, עד סוף השבוע means by the end of the week.

Word by word:

• עד = until / up to / by
• סוף = end
• השבוע = the week

In deadline contexts, עד often means by rather than a continuous until. So the idea is that payment must happen no later than the end of the week.

It can mean either one, depending on context.

• sometimes the end of the week
• sometimes the weekend

Here, since the sentence is about a payment deadline, the intended meaning is most naturally by the end of the week. In everyday speech, though, סוף השבוע is also very often used for the weekend.

It is pronounced roughly she-neshalem.

The ש־ is a short prefix meaning that, and it attaches directly to נשלם.

So it helps to think of it as:

• ש + נשלם
• that + we will pay

In normal speech, it is said as one word.