Questions & Answers about אחרי זה רופא השיניים שאל אם גם החניכיים שלי כואבות.
אחרי זה means after that or afterwards.
Literally, אחרי is after and זה is this/that. In everyday Hebrew, אחרי זה is a very common way to move the story forward, like saying then or after that in English.
So the sentence starts by setting the time frame: first one thing happened, and after that the dentist asked a question.
Because Hebrew often uses a construct chain (called סמיכות) instead of of.
So:
- רופא שיניים = a dentist
literally: doctor of teeth - רופא השיניים = the dentist
literally: doctor of the teeth
In this structure, the first noun usually does not take ה־, even when the whole phrase is definite. The definiteness is shown on the second noun.
So:
- רופא שיניים = a dentist
- רופא השיניים = the dentist
This is a very common Hebrew pattern.