חבל שיצאת מוקדם, כי אחר כך המנהלת הרשתה לכולנו ללכת הביתה.

Here חבל ש־ is a fixed expression meaning it’s a shame that... / it’s too bad that...

So:

• חבל by itself can mean a pity / a shame in everyday Hebrew
• ש־ means that

Together, חבל שיצאת מוקדם = It’s a shame that you left early.

Yes, חבל can also literally mean rope in other contexts, but not in this sentence.

The ש־ is the conjunction that.

So the structure is:

• חבל ש... = It’s a shame that...
• טוב ש... = It’s good that...
• ברור ש... = It’s clear that...

In Hebrew, ש־ is often attached directly to the following word.

יצאת is the past tense of לצאת (to go out / to leave).

In this sentence it means you left.

A learner should know that in unpointed Hebrew, יצאת can represent both:

• you left (masculine singular)
• you left (feminine singular)

The pronunciation is different with vowels, but the spelling is usually the same in everyday writing. So context tells you which one is meant.

Yes, מוקדם can be an adjective, but here it functions adverbially:

• יצאת מוקדם = you left early

Hebrew often uses adjective forms where English would use an adverb.

Compare:

• הגעתי מוקדם = I arrived early
• הוא קם מאוחר = he got up late

So מוקדם here is best understood as early describing the action of leaving.

כי here means because.

So the sentence has this structure:

• חבל שיצאת מוקדם = It’s a shame you left early
• כי אחר כך... = because afterward...

Full logic: It’s a shame you left early, because afterward the manager allowed all of us to go home.

אחר כך means after that / afterward / later.

It is a very common time expression.

Examples:

• נדבר אחר כך = we’ll talk later
• אכלנו, ואחר כך יצאנו = we ate, and afterward we went out

In your sentence, it explains that the important event happened later, after the person had already left.

Both are feminine singular, and they agree with each other.

• המנהלת = the manager (female)
• הרשתה = she allowed

The verb agrees with the subject in gender and number in the past tense.

Compare:

• המנהל הרשה = the male manager allowed
• המנהלת הרשתה = the female manager allowed

So this sentence specifically refers to a female manager.

הרשתה comes from להרשות = to allow / to permit.

This verb usually works like this:

• הרשה למישהו לעשות משהו = allowed someone to do something

In your sentence:

• הרשתה לכולנו ללכת הביתה
• literally: she allowed to-all-of-us to-go home
• natural English: she allowed all of us to go home

So the pattern is:

• ל־
  • person who gets permission
• infinitive for the action permitted

לכולנו is built from several parts:

• ל־ = to
• כולנו = all of us

So:

• לכולנו = to all of us

This is very natural Hebrew.

Related forms:

• כולי = all of me / my whole...
• כולך = all of you
• כולנו = all of us
• כולם = all of them

In this sentence, לכולנו marks the people who were given permission.

ללכת הביתה is the normal Hebrew way to say to go home.

The word הביתה contains the directional ending ־ה, which can give the sense of to/toward a place.

So:

• בית = house
• הבית = the house / the home
• הביתה = homeward / to the house / home

That is why Hebrew does not need an extra ל־ before הביתה here.

Very common expressions:

• אני הולך הביתה = I’m going home
• חזרנו הביתה = we returned home

The sentence is quite natural and straightforward:

• חבל שיצאת מוקדם
• כי אחר כך המנהלת הרשתה לכולנו ללכת הביתה

Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible, but this order is neutral and common.

A rough breakdown:

1. expression of regret: חבל ש...
2. reason introduced by כי
3. time expression: אחר כך
4. subject: המנהלת
5. verb: הרשתה
6. indirect object: לכולנו
7. infinitive phrase: ללכת הביתה

So the sentence flows as: It’s a shame that X happened, because later Y happened.

Yes. The verb לצאת can mean:

• to go out
• to leave
• to exit

In this sentence, left is the most natural translation because the next clause shows that the person departed too soon.

So while יצאת מוקדם could literally be you went out early, the best English here is you left early.

It sounds like normal, everyday Hebrew.

Nothing in it is especially literary or formal. In fact, several parts are very common in speech:

• חבל ש...
• אחר כך
• ללכת הביתה

So this is a useful sentence pattern for everyday conversation.