אני רוצה לדבר עם השותפה לדירה שלי על שכר הדירה.

In Hebrew, the singular present-tense forms for want are pronounced differently but often spelled the same without vowel marks:

• רוצה = rotze for a male speaker
• רוצה = rotza for a female speaker

So this sentence could be said by either a man or a woman. You know the gender only from context or pronunciation.

Because after רוצה (want), Hebrew uses the infinitive, just like English uses to + verb:

• אני רוצה לדבר = I want to speak
• literally: I want to-speak

The ל־ at the beginning of לדבר is the normal marker of the infinitive in Hebrew.

לדבר means to speak or to talk.

In this sentence, it works with two prepositions:

• לדבר עם... = to talk with / to speak with...
• לדבר על... = to talk about...

So the full structure is:

• אני רוצה לדבר עם X על Y
• I want to talk with X about Y

Because they do two different jobs:

• עם = with → who you are speaking with
• על = about → what you are speaking about

So:

• לדבר עם השותפה לדירה שלי = to talk with my roommate
• על שכר הדירה = about the rent

This is very similar to English: talk with someone about something.

It literally means something like the female partner for the apartment, but in normal English the natural meaning is the female roommate.

Breakdown:

• שותפה = female partner / female associate / female co-owner, depending on context
• לדירה = for the apartment or of the apartment in this fixed expression

Together, שותפה לדירה is the common way to say female roommate.

If the roommate were male, you would usually say:

• שותף לדירה = male roommate

The ה־ is the definite article, meaning the.

Hebrew often uses the definite article when talking about a specific, known person, especially in phrases that correspond to English my...:

• השותפה לדירה שלי = my roommate / the roommate of mine

Here it refers to one specific roommate, not just any roommate.

Because in Hebrew, possessive words like שלי (my) usually come after the noun they relate to.

Compare:

• הספר שלי = my book
• החבר שלי = my friend

In this sentence, the fixed phrase is שותפה לדירה (roommate), and then שלי is added at the end:

• השותפה לדירה שלי

This is the natural Hebrew way to say my roommate here.

שכר הדירה means the rent.

It is a construct phrase in Hebrew:

• שכר = pay / wage / rent payment
• הדירה = the apartment

Together:

• שכר הדירה = literally the apartment’s rent
• natural English: the rent

This is a very common Hebrew expression.

Because this is a Hebrew construct chain.

In a construct chain, the first noun usually does not take ה־, even when the whole phrase is definite. Instead, definiteness is shown on the second noun.

So:

• שכר דירה = rent / apartment rent in a general sense
• שכר הדירה = the rent / the apartment’s rent

This is a very important Hebrew pattern.

In this sentence, אני is usually helpful and natural.

Hebrew often drops subject pronouns in the past or future because the verb already shows the person clearly. But in the present tense, forms like רוצה do not clearly show person by themselves.

So:

• אני רוצה לדבר... = clear: I want to talk...
• רוצה לדבר... = possible in context, but less clear by itself

For learners, keeping אני is the safest and most natural choice.

The given word order is very natural:

• אני רוצה לדבר עם השותפה לדירה שלי על שכר הדירה.

It follows a common Hebrew pattern:

• subject + want + infinitive + with whom + about what

You might hear small variations in speech, but this version is standard and clear. For a learner, it is an excellent model sentence.