הוא לא רצה לסרב לבקשה שלה, אבל בסוף אמר שאין לו זמן ללוות אותה.

Because the sentence is narrating a past event, so Hebrew uses the past tense:

• רצה = he wanted
• רוצה = he wants / is wanting

The subject is הוא (he), so the verb is in masculine singular past.

A quick comparison:

• הוא רוצה לעזור = He wants to help
• הוא רצה לעזור = He wanted to help

The ל־ at the beginning marks the infinitive form, similar to English to in to refuse or to accompany.

So:

• לסרב = to refuse
• ללוות = to accompany

After a verb like רצה (wanted), Hebrew commonly uses an infinitive:

• הוא רצה לסרב = He wanted to refuse

Because the verb לסרב does not usually take a direct object in Hebrew. It normally goes with ל־ before the thing being refused.

So Hebrew says:

• לסרב לבקשה = literally to refuse to a request, but naturally this means to refuse a request

This is just the pattern the verb takes.

Other examples:

• היא סירבה להצעה = She refused the offer
• הוא סירב לבקשה שלי = He refused my request

So the ל־ before בקשה is required by the verb סירב.

Because a noun with a possessive ending or possessive phrase is already definite in Hebrew.

So:

• בקשה = a request
• הבקשה = the request
• בקשה שלה = her request / the request of hers

Since שלה already makes it definite, Hebrew does not say הבקשה שלה in this structure as a basic form. In this sentence, לבקשה שלה is the natural phrasing: to her request = her request as the object of refuse.

Here בסוף means in the end, eventually, or after all.

Literally, it comes from in the end, but in everyday Hebrew it often works like:

• בסוף הוא הסכים = In the end he agreed
• בסוף לא הלכנו = We didn’t end up going

So in this sentence, it marks what finally happened after hesitation or a change of direction.

שאין is made of:

• ש־ = that
• אין = there is not / there are not / does not have

So:

• שאין לו זמן = that he doesn’t have time

This is a very common Hebrew structure. You will often see ש־ attached directly to the next word.

Examples:

• אמר שאין בעיה = He said that there is no problem
• ידעתי שאין סיכוי = I knew that there was no chance

Hebrew usually expresses have / has with יש and אין rather than with a separate verb like English to have.

So:

• יש לו זמן = He has time
• אין לו זמן = He doesn’t have time

Literally, this is closer to:

• There is time for him
• There is no time for him

The word לו means to him / for him, and that is how possession is built in this kind of sentence.

Because after אמר (he said), Hebrew often keeps the content of the speech in the form it would naturally have when spoken.

So:

• אמר שאין לו זמן = He said that he doesn’t have time

This is very natural, even though the main verb is in the past. English often does the same, depending on style and meaning.

Hebrew could use other tense choices in different contexts, but here אין לו זמן sounds like the direct content of what he said.

Yes. ללוות can mean either:

• to accompany
• to lend

Hebrew spelling without vowel marks can be ambiguous, and context tells you which meaning is intended.

In this sentence, ללוות אותה clearly means to accompany her, because:

• אין לו זמן ללוות אותה = He doesn’t have time to accompany her

The meaning to lend her would not fit naturally with time here.

Because ללוות here takes a direct object, and her as a direct object is אותה.

So:

• ללוות אותה = to accompany her

But לה means to her, which is an indirect object.

Compare:

• ראיתי אותה = I saw her
• נתתי לה ספר = I gave her a book

In this sentence, she is the person being accompanied, so Hebrew uses the direct object form אותה.

They are both related to her, but they do different jobs:

• שלה = hers / her in a possessive sense
  
  • הבקשה שלה / בקשה שלה = her request
• אותה = her as a direct object
  
  • ללוות אותה = to accompany her

So in the sentence:

• לבקשה שלה = her request
• ללוות אותה = to accompany her

A learner often mixes these up, but one shows possession and the other marks the object of the verb.

Because Hebrew often omits a repeated subject when it is already clear from the verb form and context.

So instead of saying:

• הוא לא רצה..., אבל בסוף הוא אמר...

Hebrew can simply say:

• הוא לא רצה..., אבל בסוף אמר...

Both are possible, but leaving out the second הוא is very natural and avoids unnecessary repetition.

It breaks down like this:

• הוא לא רצה = He didn’t want
• לסרב לבקשה שלה = to refuse her request
• אבל בסוף = but in the end
• אמר = he said
• שאין לו זמן = that he doesn’t have time
• ללוות אותה = to accompany her

So the sentence moves in two stages:

1. what he didn’t want to do
2. what he finally said instead

That contrast is carried by אבל (but) and בסוף (in the end).