נשפך לי קצת מיץ על הרצפה, ולכן אני מנגבת אותה עכשיו.

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Breakdown of נשפך לי קצת מיץ על הרצפה, ולכן אני מנגבת אותה עכשיו.

• לי: to me
• עכשיו: now
• ו: and

Questions & Answers about נשפך לי קצת מיץ על הרצפה, ולכן אני מנגבת אותה עכשיו.

Why does the sentence say נשפך לי instead of something like שפכתי?

נשפך לי is a very common Hebrew way to describe an accidental event.

• שפכתי = I spilled
• נשפך לי = it spilled on me / I had it spill / it got spilled

So נשפך לי קצת מיץ sounds more like some juice got spilled or I accidentally spilled some juice, rather than a deliberate action.

Hebrew often uses this kind of structure for things that happen unintentionally:

• נשבר לי הכוס = my glass broke / I accidentally broke the glass
• נפל לי הטלפון = my phone fell / I dropped my phone

It is very natural in everyday speech.

What exactly does לי mean here?

Literally, לי means to me or for me, but in this sentence it does not mean that the juice physically spilled onto the speaker.

Here it marks the speaker as the affected person. It gives the sense:

• some juice spilled on me / happened to me
• in natural English: I spilled some juice or some juice got spilled

So לי often adds a personal, affected nuance, especially with accidental events.

Why is נשפך masculine singular?