הסרט הזה מעניין כמו הסרט שראינו אתמול.

In present-tense Hebrew, simple sentences with adjectives or noun phrases usually do not use a separate word for is. So הסרט הזה מעניין literally looks like this movie interesting, but it means this movie is interesting.

If you wanted past or future, Hebrew would normally use forms of להיות (to be).

In Hebrew, demonstratives such as this and that normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• הסרט הזה = this movie
• הספר הזה = this book
• הילדה הזאת = this girl

That word order is completely normal in Hebrew.

Because this movie is definite. In Hebrew, when you say this/that + noun, the noun is normally marked as definite with ה.

So:

• הסרט הזה = this movie
• not standard: סרט הזה

Hebrew treats this movie as a specific, identifiable movie, just like English does.

Here, מעניין functions as an adjective meaning interesting.

Historically, it comes from a verbal pattern and is related to the verb לעניין (to interest), but in sentences like this it behaves like an adjective. It also agrees with the noun:

• masculine singular: מעניין
• feminine singular: מעניינת
• masculine plural: מעניינים
• feminine plural: מעניינות

Since הסרט is masculine singular, מעניין is the correct form.

Because הסרט is a masculine singular noun, and the adjective has to match it.

So:

• הסרט הזה מעניין = this movie is interesting
• הסדרה הזאת מעניינת = this series is interesting

The ending changes depending on gender and number.

Here כמו means like or as in a comparison.

In this sentence, מעניין כמו... means as interesting as.... Hebrew often uses just כמו where English uses the full as ... as pattern.

So:

• גבוה כמו אחיו = as tall as his brother
• מעניין כמו הסרט... = as interesting as the movie...

שראינו is made of two parts:

• ש = that / which
• ראינו = we saw

So הסרט שראינו אתמול means the movie that we saw yesterday.

The ש is attached directly to the next word, which is very common in Hebrew.

Because the Hebrew verb already includes the subject.

ראינו means we saw, and the ending ־נו shows that the subject is we. So Hebrew does not need a separate אנחנו here.

You could add אנחנו for emphasis, but it is not necessary:

• ראינו = we saw
• אנחנו ראינו = we saw with extra emphasis

There are two reasons.

First, after כמו, you do not use את, because כמו is a preposition, and הסרט after it is not a direct object.

Second, in הסרט שראינו אתמול, the movie is the understood object of ראינו, but it is not repeated inside the relative clause. Hebrew normally leaves that object unspoken:

• הסרט שראינו אתמול = the movie that we saw yesterday

Also, את is used only before an explicitly stated definite direct object. Since the object noun is not repeated inside the clause, there is no את there.

Because it refers to a specific movie: the movie that we saw yesterday.

The relative clause שראינו אתמול identifies which movie you mean, and Hebrew commonly uses ה when the noun is definite and specific in this way.

So:

• הסרט שראינו אתמול = the movie that we saw yesterday
• סרט שראינו אתמול could mean a movie we saw yesterday

Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible, but this sentence is very natural as written.

אתמול at the end of the relative clause is the most neutral and common placement:

• הסרט שראינו אתמול = the movie that we saw yesterday

Other orders are sometimes possible, but they can sound more marked or less natural. The position of הזה is less flexible; it normally stays after the noun.