אל תזיזי את המאוורר עכשיו, כי הכבל שלו קצר מדי.

Yes. אל תזיזי means don’t move when speaking to one female.

In Hebrew, negative commands are often formed with:

• אל = don’t
• a future-tense form

So:

• תזיזי = you will move / you move (to one female)
• אל תזיזי = don’t move

This is very common in spoken and written Hebrew.

Hebrew often uses אל + future form for negative commands instead of a separate imperative form.

For the verb להזיז (to move something), the forms are:

• תזיז = you will move (masculine singular)
• תזיזי = you will move (feminine singular)

So if you are telling one woman or girl don’t move it, you say:

• אל תזיזי

This is more natural than trying to make a negative imperative in another way.

The ending -י in תזיזי marks second person feminine singular in this future form.

Compare:

• אל תזיז = don’t move (to one male)
• אל תזיזי = don’t move (to one female)
• אל תזיזו = don’t move (to more than one person)

So this sentence is specifically said to a female speaker/listener.

Here את is the direct object marker. It does not mean you in this sentence.

Hebrew uses את before a definite direct object. Since המאוורר means the fan, it is definite, so Hebrew adds את:

• תזיזי את המאוורר = move the fan

You use this את only with definite objects, such as:

• את הספר = the book
• את הילד = the boy
• את המאוורר = the fan

If the object were indefinite, usually there would be no את.

The prefix ה־ means the.

So:

• מאוורר = a fan
• המאוורר = the fan

Since the sentence means don’t move the fan now, the noun is definite, so Hebrew uses ה־.

Yes. כי here means because:

• כי הכבל שלו קצר מדי = because its cable is too short

It is a very common word for giving a reason.

In everyday Hebrew, especially in speech, people also often use כי in places where English might use that, depending on context, but here it straightforwardly means because.

הכבל שלו literally means the cable of-him/its, i.e. its cable or his cable, depending on context.

Breakdown:

• הכבל = the cable
• שלו = his / its

In Hebrew, possession is often expressed with של forms:

• שלי = my/mine
• שלך = your/yours
• שלו = his/its
• שלה = her/hers

So:

• הכבל שלו = its cable

Here שלו refers to המאוורר (the fan). Since מאוורר is a masculine noun, Hebrew uses שלו.

Hebrew does not have a separate everyday possessive word for its like English does. Instead, Hebrew normally uses:

• שלו for masculine nouns
• שלה for feminine nouns

Since מאוורר is masculine, שלו can mean his or its, depending on context.

So in this sentence, הכבל שלו naturally means its cable, not his cable.

קצר means short.
מדי means too in the sense of excessively.

So:

• קצר מדי = too short

Examples:

• יקר מדי = too expensive
• גדול מדי = too big
• חם מדי = too hot

So the full idea is: the cable is too short.

Because הכבל (the cable) is a masculine singular noun.

Adjectives in Hebrew agree with the noun they describe:

• masculine singular: קצר
• feminine singular: קצרה
• masculine plural: קצרים
• feminine plural: קצרות

Since כבל is masculine singular, the sentence uses קצר מדי.

Yes, very normal.

Hebrew often puts the parts in this order:

• negative command
• direct object
• time expression

So:

• אל תזיזי את המאוורר עכשיו = Don’t move the fan now

You could sometimes shift עכשיו for emphasis, but this order is natural and neutral.

Good question. Both can relate to negation, but they are used differently.

• אל is commonly used for negative commands: don’t...
• לא is the general word for not

So:

• אל תזיזי = don’t move
• לא תזיזי usually sounds more like you will not move or you aren’t going to move, not a direct command

If you want to tell someone don’t do that, אל is the normal choice.

No. They are related, but not the same.

• לזוז = to move / to budge (usually intransitive: the thing moves itself)
• להזיז = to move something (transitive: someone moves an object)

In this sentence, the speaker is telling someone not to move the fan, so Hebrew uses להזיז:

• אל תזיזי את המאוורר

If you said אל תזוזי, that would mean don’t move about the person herself, not the fan.

You only need to change the verb form.

To one man:

• אל תזיז את המאוורר עכשיו, כי הכבל שלו קצר מדי.

To one woman:

• אל תזיזי את המאוורר עכשיו, כי הכבל שלו קצר מדי.

To several people:

• אל תזיזו את המאוורר עכשיו, כי הכבל שלו קצר מדי.

Everything else stays the same.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

Al tazízi et hama’avrér akhsháv, ki hakével shelo katsár midái.

A few notes:

• אל = al
• תזיזי = ta-ZI-zi
• המאוורר = ha-ma-av-RER
• עכשיו = akh-SHAV
• הכבל = ha-KE-vel
• שלו = she-LO
• קצר מדי = ka-TSAR mi-DAI

Pronunciation varies a little by speaker, but this will be understood well.