היה לי חשד קטן בגלל ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה בפגישה.

Hebrew often expresses possession with a structure that literally means there was to me.

So:

• היה לי חשד קטן = literally, there was to me a small suspicion = natural English: I had a small suspicion

This is a very common Hebrew pattern:

• יש לי ספר = I have a book
• היה לי זמן = I had time
• אין לי כסף = I don't have money

So היה לי is the normal past-tense way to say I had in many situations.

Because the thing that existed is חשד (suspicion), and חשד is a masculine singular noun.

In this pattern, the verb agrees with the noun being possessed, not with the person who has it.

• היה לי חשד = I had a suspicion
  (חשד is masculine singular, so היה is masculine singular)

Compare:

• הייתה לי בעיה = I had a problem
  (בעיה is feminine singular, so the verb becomes הייתה)

לי means to me.

It is made from:

• ל־ = to
• י = me / my indirect object ending

So:

• לי = to me
• לך = to you (masculine singular)
• לה = to her
• לנו = to us

In possession structures like this, לי functions like I have in English.

In Hebrew, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• חשד קטן = a small suspicion
• בית גדול = a big house
• ילדה חכמה = a smart girl

This is the normal Hebrew word order for noun + adjective.

Because חשד is a masculine noun, so the adjective must also be masculine.

Hebrew adjectives agree with the noun in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

So:

• masculine singular: קטן
• feminine singular: קטנה
• masculine plural: קטנים
• feminine plural: קטנות

Since חשד is masculine singular, קטן is the correct form.

בגלל means because of.

In this sentence:

• בגלל ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה = because of her strange behavior

It is followed by a noun or noun phrase, not usually by a full conjugated clause.

Examples:

• בגלל הגשם = because of the rain
• בגלל העבודה = because of the work
• בגללך = because of you

So here it introduces the reason for the suspicion.

The prefix ה־ is the definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• התנהגות = the behavior
• without ה־, התנהגות would be behavior in a more general or indefinite sense

In this sentence, the speaker means a specific behavior, namely her strange behavior, so the noun is definite:

• ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה = her strange behavior

When a noun is definite in Hebrew, its adjective is usually definite too.

So:

• ההתנהגות המוזרה = the strange behavior

Both words get ה־ because the whole noun phrase is definite.

Compare:

• התנהגות מוזרה = strange behavior / a strange behavior
• ההתנהגות המוזרה = the strange behavior

This is a very important Hebrew rule: adjectives agree with the noun in definiteness as well as gender and number.

In Hebrew, possession with words like my, your, her is often expressed by placing a possessive form after the noun:

• הספר שלי = my book
• הבית שלהם = their house
• ההתנהגות שלה = her behavior

So שלה means hers / of her, and after a noun it means her.

Here:

• ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה = her strange behavior

It comes after the noun and adjective, which is normal.

Yes, but that would be more formal or literary.

• ההתנהגות שלה = normal, everyday modern Hebrew
• התנהגותה = her behavior, but more formal, written, or elevated in style

In ordinary speech, learners will hear שלה much more often.

בפגישה means in the meeting or at the meeting, depending on natural English translation.

It is made of:

• ב־ = in / at
• פגישה = meeting

Because the noun is definite here, the ה of הפגישה is absorbed into the prefix, giving:

• ב + הפגישה = בפגישה

This is very common in Hebrew:

• בבית = in the house
• בספר = in the book
• בפגישה = in/at the meeting

Because Hebrew often combines prepositions with the definite article.

So:

• ב + ה = בַּ
• ל + ה = לַ
• כ + ה = כַּ

That means:

• בפגישה = at the meeting
• לבית = to the house
• כמלך = as the king

In writing, this looks like one word. The definite article is still there, but it merges with the preposition.

The sentence as written is natural and clear, but Hebrew allows some flexibility.

Standard order here:

• היה לי חשד קטן בגלל ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה בפגישה

You could also move the reason phrase for emphasis:

• בגלל ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה בפגישה, היה לי חשד קטן

That sounds like:

• Because of her strange behavior at the meeting, I had a small suspicion

So the original order is very natural, but Hebrew can shift parts around for focus or style.

In this sentence, the most natural reading is that it modifies ההתנהגות:

• her strange behavior at the meeting

So the meaning is:

• I had a small suspicion because of her strange behavior during/at the meeting

In theory, context can sometimes make a phrase like בפגישה attach more broadly, but here it most naturally belongs with ההתנהגות.

It would stay exactly the same.

Nothing in this sentence shows the gender of the speaker. The speaker is expressed only through לי (to me), which does not change for male or female speakers.

So both a man and a woman can say:

• היה לי חשד קטן בגלל ההתנהגות המוזרה שלה בפגישה

The verb agrees with חשד, not with the speaker.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

haya li khasad katan biglal hahitnahagut hamuzarah shelah bapgishah

A slightly more careful breakdown:

• היה לי — ha-YA li
• חשד קטן — kha-SHAD ka-TAN
• בגלל — big-LAL
• ההתנהגות — ha-hit-na-ha-GUT
• המוזרה — ha-mu-ZA-ra
• שלה — she-LA
• בפגישה — ba-pgi-SHA

Exact pronunciation varies a bit by speaker and accent, but this will get you very close.