אם אין זמן לטאטא עכשיו, נטאטא מחר בבוקר לפני העבודה.

In Hebrew, אין is the normal way to say that something does not exist / there isn’t / there aren’t in the present.

So:

• יש זמן = there is time
• אין זמן = there isn’t time

This is different from simple negation with לא.
You usually do not say לא יש זמן in standard Hebrew.

So in this sentence:

• אם אין זמן... = if there isn’t time...

This is a very common Hebrew pattern:

• יש לי שאלה = I have a question
• אין לי שאלה = I don’t have a question
• יש אוכל = there is food
• אין אוכל = there isn’t any food

Because Hebrew often uses זמן + infinitive to mean time to do something.

So:

• זמן לטאטא = time to sweep
• זמן לאכול = time to eat
• זמן ללכת = time to go

Here, לטאטא is the infinitive, meaning to sweep.

So:

• אם אין זמן לטאטא עכשיו
  literally: if there is no time to sweep now

That is a very natural Hebrew structure.

לטאטא means to sweep.

It comes from the verb טִאֲטֵא / לְטַאטֵא, which is a somewhat unusual-looking verb because of the repeated consonants and the א letters in the root.

You do not need to master the full historical pattern right away, but it helps to recognize these forms:

• לטאטא = to sweep
• טיאטאתי = I swept
• מטאטא = sweeping / sweeps
• נטאטא = we will sweep

So the sentence repeats the same verb in two forms:

• לטאטא = to sweep
• נטאטא = we will sweep

In Hebrew, the future tense is built into the verb itself, and the prefix often tells you the subject.

Here:

• נ- at the beginning often marks we in the future
• נטאטא = we will sweep

So Hebrew does not need a separate word for we here, although it could be added for emphasis:

• נטאטא = we will sweep
• אנחנו נטאטא = we will sweep (more explicit, but usually unnecessary)

This is one reason Hebrew sentences often omit subject pronouns: the verb already tells you who is doing the action.

That is a very normal Hebrew conditional pattern.

The first clause gives the condition:

• אם אין זמן לטאטא עכשיו = if there isn’t time to sweep now

The second clause gives the result:

• נטאטא מחר בבוקר = we’ll sweep tomorrow morning

So Hebrew often does exactly what English does here:

• If there isn’t time now, we’ll do it later.

There is no need for a separate word like then. Hebrew can include one in some contexts, but it is usually unnecessary.

Because Hebrew verbs usually already include the subject.

In נטאטא, the form itself means we will sweep, so אנחנו is not required.

This is very common in Hebrew:

• אלך = I will go
• תלך = you will go / she will go
• נלך = we will go
• ילכו = they will go

So in your sentence, נטאטא already tells you we.

בבוקר means in the morning.

It is made from:

• ב־ = in
• הבוקר = the morning

When the preposition ב־ attaches to a noun with ה־ (the), the ה usually disappears and the form becomes doubled:

• ב + הבוקר → בבוקר

This is a very common pattern:

• בבית = in the house
• בעיר = in the city
• בשבוע הבא = in the coming week / next week

So מחר בבוקר = tomorrow morning
literally something like tomorrow in-the-morning.

Both definite and indefinite nouns can appear after לפני (before), but in everyday Hebrew, העבודה often refers to the workday / work / one’s job in a specific, familiar sense.

So:

• לפני העבודה = before work
• literally: before the work

This is very natural Hebrew. The definite article often appears where English would not use the.

Compare:

• אני בבית = I am at home
  (literally in the house/home)
• אחרי הלימודים = after school / after studies
• לפני העבודה = before work

So even though English says before work, Hebrew commonly says before the work.

Because עכשיו here modifies the action to sweep now.

So:

• אין זמן לטאטא עכשיו = there isn’t time to sweep now

This word order is very natural in Hebrew. It keeps לטאטא עכשיו together as one idea: to sweep now.

You could rearrange Hebrew word order in some contexts for emphasis, but this version is the most straightforward and natural.

The comma is normal because the sentence begins with a conditional clause:

• אם אין זמן לטאטא עכשיו, ...

Then comes the main clause:

• נטאטא מחר בבוקר לפני העבודה.

This is similar to English punctuation:

• If there isn’t time now, we’ll sweep tomorrow morning.

In informal Hebrew writing, punctuation can sometimes be looser, but the comma here is standard and helpful.

Yes, but it would mean something a little different.

• אם אין זמן לטאטא עכשיו = if there isn’t time to sweep now
• אם לא יהיה זמן לטאטא עכשיו = if there won’t be time to sweep now

The first version sounds more immediate and natural in this context, because the speaker is talking about the present situation: right now, there isn’t time.

The second version sounds more like talking about a future lack of time.

So in your sentence, אם אין זמן is the best fit.

It can do both, depending on context.

Examples:

• אם ירד גשם, נישאר בבית = If it rains, we’ll stay home
• אני לא יודע אם הוא בא = I don’t know whether he is coming

In your sentence, it is clearly the conditional if:

• אם אין זמן... = if there isn’t time...

So learners should remember that אם can mean either if or whether, and the sentence structure tells you which one it is.