Questions & Answers about אני רוצה גיבוי לפני שהקובץ יימחק.
A word-by-word breakdown is:
- אני = I
- רוצה = want
- This is the form used by a male speaker.
- A female speaker would say רוצה too, but it is pronounced differently in context only if pointed; in normal writing it looks the same. In speech, both are usually rotze / rotza depending on the speaker:
- male: ani rotze
- female: ani rotza
- גיבוי = backup
- לפני = before
- ש־ = that / when / before, depending on context; here it introduces a clause after before
- הקובץ = the file
- יימחק = will be deleted / will be erased
So the structure is basically:
I want backup before the file will-be-deleted
which is the normal Hebrew way to express I want a backup before the file is deleted.