אני לא רוצה לנחש את התשובה מהר מדי, ולכן אני לא מהססת לבקש רמז.

את marks a definite direct object in Hebrew.

In לנחש את התשובה:

• לנחש = to guess
• התשובה = the answer

Because התשובה is definite—it has ה־ (the)—Hebrew uses את before it.

So:

• לנחש תשובה = to guess an answer
• לנחש את התשובה = to guess the answer

English does not have an equivalent word here, so learners often wonder why it appears.

מהר means quickly / fast, and מדי means too in the sense of excessively.

So מהר מדי means:

• too quickly
• too fast
• sometimes, depending on context, too soon

In this sentence, לא רוצה לנחש את התשובה מהר מדי means the speaker does not want to guess the answer too quickly / too soon.

Both are infinitives, usually translated as to guess and to ask for / request.

• לנחש = to guess
• לבקש = to ask for, request

After verbs like רוצה (want) or expressions like מהססת (hesitating), Hebrew often uses an infinitive:

• אני רוצה לנחש = I want to guess
• אני לא מהססת לבקש = I do not hesitate to ask

This is similar to English want to guess and hesitate to ask.

לכן means therefore / so / for that reason.

ולכן is simply:

• ו־ = and
• לכן = therefore

So ולכן means something like:

• and therefore
• and so
• so

In natural English, we often would not translate the and separately, but in Hebrew it sounds very natural to connect the two clauses this way.

This shows that the speaker is female.

In the present tense, many Hebrew verbs look like adjectives and change for gender:

• מהסס = hesitating, masculine singular
• מהססת = hesitating, feminine singular

So:

• אני לא מהסס = I am not hesitating / I do not hesitate (male speaker)
• אני לא מהססת = I am not hesitating / I do not hesitate (female speaker)

This sentence clearly tells us the speaker is feminine because of מהססת.

In speech, yes—but in writing, רוצה looks the same for both masculine and feminine singular.

Compare:

• masculine: אני רוצה pronounced roughly rotze
• feminine: אני רוצה pronounced roughly rotza

The spelling is identical, so the second clause, אני לא מהססת, is what makes the speaker’s gender unmistakably feminine.

Yes, מהססת here means hesitating or hesitate.

The verb is להסס = to hesitate.

So:

• אני מהססת = I am hesitating
• אני לא מהססת לבקש רמז = I do not hesitate to ask for a hint

A very literal translation would be I am not hesitating to ask for a hint, but natural English is usually I do not hesitate to ask for a hint.

Each לא negates its own clause.

The sentence has two parts:

1. אני לא רוצה לנחש את התשובה מהר מדי = I do not want to guess the answer too quickly
2. ולכן אני לא מהססת לבקש רמז = and so I do not hesitate to ask for a hint

Hebrew commonly repeats לא wherever negation is needed, just as English repeats not in separate clauses.

Because it means a hint, not the hint.

• רמז = a hint
• הרמז = the hint

So:

• לבקש רמז = to ask for a hint
• לבקש את הרמז = to ask for the hint

In this sentence, the speaker is asking for some hint, not a specific previously mentioned hint.

The basic structure is:

אני + לא + מהססת + לבקש רמז

That is:

• אני = I
• לא = not
• מהססת = hesitate / am hesitating
• לבקש רמז = to ask for a hint

A helpful way to see it is:

I + not + hesitate + to ask for a hint

This is very normal Hebrew word order.

Yes. רמז can be translated as:

• hint
• clue
• sometimes cue, depending on context

And לבקש means to ask for or to request.

So לבקש רמז could be:

• to ask for a hint
• to request a clue

Ask for a hint is probably the most natural translation in this sentence.

The structure is:

1. I do not want to guess the answer too quickly
2. therefore / so
3. I do not hesitate to ask for a hint

In other words, the speaker is saying:

• they do not want to jump to the answer too soon,
• so they are comfortable asking for a small hint instead.

This makes ולכן very important, because it connects the reason and the result.