יום אחד אני רוצה לגור בכפר שקט ליד הים.

Literally, יום אחד means one day or one day in the sense of a certain day.

In this sentence, though, it is used idiomatically to mean someday or one day in the future.

So:

• יום = day
• אחד = one

Together, they often function like English one day in sentences such as One day I want to live by the sea.

Because the speaker is expressing a present desire about the future:

• אני רוצה = I want
• לגור = to live

So the idea is:

Right now, I want this future thing.

That is very natural in both Hebrew and English:

• I want to live...
• אני רוצה לגור...

If you used a future form of רוצה, it would mean something more like I will want, which is a different idea.

לגור is the infinitive form, meaning to live or to reside.

The ל־ at the beginning often marks the infinitive in Hebrew, similar to English to:

• לגור = to live
• לאכול = to eat
• ללכת = to go

So רוצה לגור is exactly the same pattern as English want to live.

Hebrew has more than one verb that can correspond to English live.

Here, לגור means to live somewhere / reside somewhere.

That makes it the right choice for a place:

• לגור בכפר = to live in a village

Another common verb is לחיות, which often means to live / be alive / experience life.

Compare:

• אני רוצה לגור בכפר = I want to live in a village
• אני רוצה לחיות חיים טובים = I want to live a good life

So in this sentence, לגור is the natural verb.

Because the preposition ב־ meaning in is attached directly to the noun.

So:

• ב־ = in
• כפר = village
• בכפר = in a village / in the village, depending on context

This is very normal in Hebrew. Other common attached prepositions are:

• ב־ = in
• ל־ = to
• כ־ = like/as
• מ־ = from

So Hebrew often writes what English writes as two words as a single word.

Because Hebrew does not have an indefinite article like English a/an.

So:

• כפר can mean a village
• הכפר means the village

In this sentence:

• בכפר שקט = in a quiet village
• בכפר השקט or בכפר שקט ליד הים would need more context if you wanted the quiet village

So the absence of ה־ usually gives the indefinite meaning.

Because in Hebrew, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• כפר שקט = a quiet village
• literally: village quiet

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

More examples:

• בית גדול = a big house
• ילד חכם = a smart boy
• עיר יפה = a beautiful city

Because כפר is a masculine singular noun, and Hebrew adjectives must agree with the noun in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

So:

• כפר = masculine singular
• therefore שקט = masculine singular adjective

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would change:

• עיר שקטה = a quiet city

So the adjective matches the noun, not the speaker.

ליד means next to, beside, or more loosely near.

So:

• ליד הים = by the sea / near the sea / next to the sea

In natural English translation, by the sea is often the best choice.

Breaking it down:

• ליד = near / beside
• הים = the sea

Because ה־ is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the.

So:

• ים = sea
• הים = the sea

But:

• כפר = a village / village
• הכפר = the village

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about:

• some quiet village = indefinite
• the sea = definite, a specific natural feature

That is why the sentence has:

• בכפר שקט = in a quiet village
• ליד הים = near the sea

Yes and no.

The only part that changes is רוצה in pronunciation, because Hebrew present-tense verbs agree with the speaker’s gender.

In writing without vowels, it looks the same:

• אני רוצה

But it is pronounced:

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

So:

• male: יום אחד אני רוצה לגור בכפר שקט ליד הים
• female: יום אחד אני רוצה לגור בכפר שקט ליד הים

Same spelling, different pronunciation.

A rough pronunciation is:

yom eKHAD ani rotSE lagur beKfar shaKET leYAD haYAM

If the speaker is female, then: rotSE becomes rotZA

A more word-by-word guide:

• יום אחד = yom e-khad
• אני = a-ni
• רוצה = rot-se / rot-sa
• לגור = la-gur
• בכפר = be-kfar
• שקט = sha-ket
• ליד = le-yad
• הים = ha-yam

Yes, this is very natural Hebrew.

The structure is:

• יום אחד = time expression
• אני רוצה = subject + verb
• לגור = infinitive
• בכפר שקט = place
• ליד הים = more detail about the place

So the sentence flows naturally as:

One day, I want to live in a quiet village near the sea.

Hebrew does allow some flexibility in word order, but this version is straightforward and standard for learners.