לפני הפגישה אני בודקת אם יש לי זמן להתקלח ולהתלבש לאט.

Because the speaker is feminine singular.

• אני בודקת = I check / I’m checking said by a woman
• A man would say אני בודק
• Plural would be:
  • אנחנו בודקות for a group of women
  • אנחנו בודקים for a mixed group or a group of men

Hebrew present-tense verbs usually show gender and number, even with אני.

Literally, it means before the meeting.

• לפני = before
• הפגישה = the meeting

The ה־ makes פגישה definite, so this is a specific meeting that both speaker and listener can identify.

Compare:

• לפני הפגישה = before the meeting
• לפני פגישה = before a meeting / before meetings in general

Here אם means whether.

In English, after verbs like check, see, know, and ask, we often use if/whether. Hebrew uses אם in the same way.

So:

• אני בודקת אם יש לי זמן = I’m checking whether I have time

It is not a conditional if here. It introduces an indirect question.

יש לי זמן is the normal Hebrew way to say I have time.

Literally, it is more like:

• יש = there is
• לי = to me
• זמן = time

So word-for-word, it is roughly there is to me time.

This is a very common Hebrew structure for possession:

• יש לי ספר = I have a book
• יש לה אוטו = she has a car

And the negative is:

• אין לי זמן = I don’t have time

You do not say אני יש לי in normal Hebrew.

Because after יש לי זמן Hebrew uses the infinitive, just like English uses to + verb:

• I have time to shower and to get dressed
• יש לי זמן להתקלח ולהתלבש

The ל־ at the beginning is the normal infinitive marker in Hebrew, similar to English to.

So:

• להתקלח = to shower / to wash oneself
• להתלבש = to get dressed

Because both verbs are in the התפעל pattern.

That pattern often has a reflexive or self-directed meaning, especially in everyday verbs like these:

• להתקלח = to shower / wash oneself
• להתלבש = to get dressed

So the הת־ is part of the verb pattern, not a separate word.

A learner does not need to analyze every root immediately, but it is useful to notice that many everyday self-care actions use this pattern.

Because it simply means and.

• להתקלח ולהתלבש = to shower and get dressed

Each verb keeps its own infinitive form, so you need both:

• להתקלח
• להתלבש

You cannot combine them into one infinitive. Hebrew works like English here.

Grammatically, לאט most directly goes with the verb right before it:

• להתלבש לאט = to get dressed slowly

So the most immediate reading is:

• I check whether I have time to shower and get dressed slowly

But in real context, a listener might also understand a more general idea of doing my pre-meeting routine slowly / without rushing.

If you want to make it clearly apply to both verbs, you could say:

• להתקלח לאט ולהתלבש לאט

Or use a word like בנחת for a more general sense of unhurriedly / calmly.

Yes, Hebrew word order is fairly flexible.

The original sentence:

• לפני הפגישה אני בודקת אם יש לי זמן להתקלח ולהתלבש לאט

puts before the meeting first, which gives that time phrase emphasis.

You could also say:

• אני בודקת לפני הפגישה אם יש לי זמן להתקלח ולהתלבש לאט

This is also natural.

The original version sounds a bit more like: Before the meeting, I check...

In modern everyday Hebrew, להתקלח very often means to shower.

Depending on context, it can also be understood more generally as to wash oneself / bathe, but in normal spoken Hebrew most people will hear it as take a shower.

Related words:

• להתרחץ = to wash oneself / bathe, more general
• לעשות אמבטיה = to take a bath

So in this sentence, להתקלח most naturally means to shower.

A common transliteration would be:

Lifnei ha-pgisha ani bodeket im yesh li zman lehitkale'ach velehitlabeš le'at.

A few pronunciation notes:

• לפני = lifnei
• הפגישה = ha-pgisha
• בודקת = bodeket
• אם = im
• יש לי זמן = yesh li zman
• להתקלח = lehitkale'ach
• ולהתלבש = velehitlabesh
• לאט = le'at

Exact transliteration can vary a little depending on the system used.