הוא הולך למאפייה פעמיים בשבוע, כי הילדים אוהבים את העוגיות שם.

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

So הולך can mean:

• goes
• is going
• sometimes even walks

In this sentence, פעמיים בשבוע makes it clear that this is a habitual action, so the natural English meaning is goes.

Not exactly. In the Hebrew present tense, the verb usually shows gender and number, but not person.

So הולך by itself could mean:

• I go / I am going — if the speaker is male
• you go / you are going — masculine singular
• he goes / he is going

That is why הוא helps identify the subject clearly as he. In context, Hebrew can sometimes omit the pronoun, but including it is very normal.

The ל־ at the beginning means to.

Hebrew often attaches short prepositions directly to the noun:

• ל־ = to
• ב־ = in / at
• כ־ = like / as

If the noun is definite, the article ה־ often gets absorbed into the preposition. So to the bakery becomes למאפייה in normal unpointed spelling.

A useful thing to know: without vowel marks, למאפייה can look the same whether it means to a bakery or to the bakery. Context tells you which one is meant.

מאפייה means bakery.

It is a feminine singular noun. That matters when you want to make agreements elsewhere in a sentence, or when you refer back to it with adjectives or pronouns.

פעמיים is the standard word for twice.

Hebrew often uses special frequency forms:

• פעם אחת = once
• פעמיים = twice
• שלוש פעמים = three times
• ארבע פעמים = four times, etc.

So פעמיים בשבוע is the natural way to say twice a week.

Literally, ב־ means in or during, so בשבוע is literally something like in a/the week.

But in frequency expressions, Hebrew uses this structure the way English uses a week:

• פעמיים בשבוע = twice a week
• שלוש פעמים ביום = three times a day
• פעם בחודש = once a month

So this is just a normal Hebrew pattern for talking about how often something happens.

כי means because here.

It introduces the reason:

• הוא הולך למאפייה פעמיים בשבוע = the main statement
• כי הילדים אוהבים את העוגיות שם = the reason

So the structure is very similar to English: He goes to the bakery twice a week, because the children like the cookies there.

Because the verb has to agree with the subject.

הילדים means the children, which is masculine plural, so the verb must also be masculine plural:

• אוהב = masculine singular
• אוהבים = masculine plural

So:

• הילד אוהב = the boy likes
• הילדים אוהבים = the children like

את marks a definite direct object.

It does not translate into English, but it tells you that the noun after it is the direct object of the verb and is definite.

Here:

• אוהבים = like
• את העוגיות = the cookies

You use את because העוגיות is definite: it has ה־ = the.

Compare:

• הילדים אוהבים עוגיות = the children like cookies
• הילדים אוהבים את העוגיות = the children like the cookies

Because the verb agrees with the subject, not with the object.

In this clause:

• הילדים = the subject
• אוהבים = the verb
• את העוגיות = the object

Since הילדים is masculine plural, the verb is אוהבים.

The fact that עוגיות is feminine plural does not affect the verb here.

שם means there.

In this sentence, it means there at the bakery or at that place. So העוגיות שם means the cookies there.

It comes after the noun it relates to, which is very natural in Hebrew:

• העוגיות שם = the cookies there
• הילדים שם = the children there

Here it clearly refers back to the bakery mentioned earlier.

Yes. Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible, although the version you have is very natural.

For example:

• הולך למאפייה פעמיים בשבוע, כי הילדים אוהבים את העוגיות שם
  This is possible if the subject is already understood.
• כי הילדים אוהבים את העוגיות שם, הוא הולך למאפייה פעמיים בשבוע
  This puts more focus on the reason.

But the original sentence is a standard, neutral way to say it.

You would change both the pronoun and the present-tense verb form:

• הוא הולך = he goes
• היא הולכת = she goes

So the full sentence would become:

היא הולכת למאפייה פעמיים בשבוע, כי הילדים אוהבים את העוגיות שם.

This is a good example of how Hebrew present tense changes for gender.