אם האוכל עדיין קפוא, אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו.

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

So האוכל עדיין קפוא literally looks like:

• the food
• still
• frozen

But it means the food is still frozen.

This is very normal Hebrew.
If you were talking about the past or future, you would use forms of to be:

• האוכל היה קפוא = the food was frozen
• האוכל יהיה קפוא = the food will be frozen

But in the present, Hebrew normally just leaves is/am/are out.

אם means if.

It does not automatically require the future tense. Hebrew can use אם with present, past, or future depending on the meaning.

In this sentence:

• אם האוכל עדיין קפוא = If the food is still frozen
• אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו = I’m not eating it now

This is a present-time condition about a present-time decision, so the present tense is natural.

קפוא is an adjective meaning frozen, and adjectives in Hebrew usually agree with the noun in gender and number.

Here the noun is האוכל = the food, which is:

• masculine
• singular

So the adjective is also masculine singular:

• קפוא = masculine singular

Other possible agreement forms would be:

• קפואה = feminine singular
• קפואים = masculine plural
• קפואות = feminine plural

So האוכל עדיין קפוא is correct because האוכל is masculine singular.

Because the speaker is feminine singular.

In the present tense, Hebrew verbs agree with the subject’s gender and number. So:

• אני אוכלת = I eat / I am eating — said by a woman
• אני אוכל = I eat / I am eating — said by a man

So this sentence tells you that the speaker is female:

• אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו

If a male speaker said it, it would be:

• אם האוכל עדיין קפוא, אני לא אוכל אותו עכשיו.

It can mean either one, depending on context, because Hebrew present tense covers both simple present and present progressive.

So:

• אני אוכלת can mean I eat or I am eating
• אני לא אוכלת can mean I don’t eat or I’m not eating

In this sentence, עכשיו = now makes the meaning clearly progressive/current:

• אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו = I’m not eating it now

Without עכשיו, it could sound more general or habitual depending on context.

אותו means him or it, depending on context. Here it means it, referring back to האוכל.

So:

• אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו = I’m not eating it now

It is the direct object pronoun.

Because האוכל is masculine singular, the pronoun is also masculine singular:

• אותו = him/it (masculine singular)

Other object pronouns include:

• אותה = her/it (feminine singular)
• אותם = them (masculine or mixed plural)
• אותן = them (feminine plural)

The prefix ה־ means the.

So:

• אוכל = food
• האוכל = the food

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about a specific food item or specific food already known in the conversation, so האוכל is natural.

If you said אם אוכל עדיין קפוא, that would sound wrong here, because it would be missing the normal definiteness needed for the food being discussed.

עדיין means still (and in some contexts yet).

In this sentence it modifies the state קפוא = frozen, so עדיין קפוא = still frozen.

That word order is very natural in Hebrew:

• האוכל עדיין קפוא

Hebrew word order with adverbs is somewhat flexible, but this is the most straightforward and common placement here.

Hebrew often places time expressions like עכשיו in flexible positions, and putting it at the end is very natural.

So:

• אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו

means I’m not eating it now.

This placement sounds neutral and idiomatic. You could move עכשיו earlier, but that would slightly change the emphasis:

• אני עכשיו לא אוכלת אותו = more marked/emphatic
• עכשיו אני לא אוכלת אותו = emphasizes now

The version in your sentence is the most natural everyday order.

The first part is a conditional clause:

• אם האוכל עדיין קפוא = If the food is still frozen

Then the main clause follows:

• אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו = I’m not eating it now

Putting a comma after the if-clause is normal and helps readability, much like in English:

• If the food is still frozen, I’m not eating it now.

In modern Hebrew writing, this punctuation is standard and natural.

Yes, but it is usually not necessary.

Hebrew can use אז = then, but in a sentence like this it would usually sound more natural without it:

• אם האוכל עדיין קפוא, אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו.

You could say:

• אם האוכל עדיין קפוא, אז אני לא אוכלת אותו עכשיו.

But that often sounds a bit more emphatic or conversational. The original version is simpler and more natural.

A male speaker would use the masculine present-tense form of the verb:

• אם האוכל עדיין קפוא, אני לא אוכל אותו עכשיו.

The only change is:

• אוכלת → אוכל

Everything else stays the same.

In this sentence, קפוא is functioning as an adjective: frozen.

So האוכל עדיין קפוא means the food is still frozen.

It comes from a root related to freezing, but here it behaves like an adjective describing the food’s condition, not like a separate finite verb.

That is why it works naturally after the noun with no present-tense is:

• האוכל קפוא = the food is frozen

Yes, pretty closely:

• אם = if
• האוכל = the food
• עדיין = still
• קפוא = frozen
• אני = I
• לא = not
• אוכלת = eat / am eating (feminine singular)
• אותו = it
• עכשיו = now

So the structure is very close to English:

• If the food still frozen, I not eating it now

The only major difference is that Hebrew leaves out present-tense is. So the natural English translation is:

• If the food is still frozen, I’m not eating it now.