אם נחלק את שכר הדירה, יהיה לנו קל יותר.

direct object marker

Breakdown of אם נחלק את שכר הדירה, יהיה לנו קל יותר.

• להיות: to be
• אם: if
• יותר: more

Questions & Answers about אם נחלק את שכר הדירה, יהיה לנו קל יותר.

Why does Hebrew use future tense in both parts of the sentence: אם נחלק ... יהיה ...?

Because this is a very common Hebrew pattern for real or likely conditions:

• אם + future, future
• If X happens / if we do X, Y will happen

So:

• אם נחלק את שכר הדירה, יהיה לנו קל יותר = If we split the rent, it will be easier for us

In English, the if clause often uses the present tense: If we split... In Hebrew, the future is normal here.

Another example:

• אם תלמד, תצליח = If you study, you will succeed

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What exactly is נחלק?

נחלק is the 1st person plural future form of לחלק, meaning to divide, to split, or sometimes to share out.

So נחלק means:

• we will divide
• we will split

In this sentence, the natural English meaning is we’ll split.

A useful point: without vowel marks, נחלק can look ambiguous on the page, but here the meaning is clearly from לחלק = to split/divide.

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Why is לחלק used here if the English meaning is split the rent?