Breakdown of הנציגה הייתה מנומסת מאוד, ולכן לא רציתי להתלונן, אבל בסוף כן כתבתי תלונה קצרה.
Questions & Answers about הנציגה הייתה מנומסת מאוד, ולכן לא רציתי להתלונן, אבל בסוף כן כתבתי תלונה קצרה.
הנציגה means the female representative / the female agent. You can tell it is feminine because the base noun is נציגה, which is the feminine form of נציג.
In Hebrew, many profession or role nouns have masculine and feminine forms:
- נציג = male representative
- נציגה = female representative
The ה־ at the beginning means the, so:
- נציגה = a female representative
- הנציגה = the female representative
Because הנציגה is feminine singular, other words describing her also appear in feminine singular form.
Because הנציגה is feminine singular.
Hebrew past-tense verbs agree with the subject in gender and number. The verb here is from להיות (to be), and in the past tense:
- הוא היה = he was
- היא הייתה = she was
So:
- הנציגה הייתה מנומסת = The representative was polite
If the subject were masculine, you would say:
- הנציג היה מנומס