אחרי העבודה כולנו הולכים הביתה.

אחרי means after.

In this sentence, אחרי העבודה means after work.
A very common Hebrew pattern is:

אחרי + noun = after + noun

Examples:

• אחרי השיעור = after class
• אחרי הארוחה = after the meal
• אחרי העבודה = after work

You can think of אחרי העבודה as a time phrase telling you when the action happens.

This is very natural in Hebrew. העבודה literally means the work, but in many everyday expressions Hebrew uses the definite form where English does not.

So:

• אחרי העבודה = literally after the work
• but naturally translated as after work

This is not unusual. Hebrew often makes nouns definite in routine expressions when English would use a bare noun.

כולנו means all of us.

It is built from:

• כול / כל = all
• -נו = us / our

So כולנו = all of us

In this sentence, it functions as the subject:

• כולנו הולכים = all of us go / are going

It already includes the idea of we, so you do not need אנחנו here.

Because כולנו already does the job of a subject.

Hebrew often allows:

• אנחנו הולכים = we are going
• כולנו הולכים = all of us are going

If you say אנחנו כולנו הולכים, it is possible, but it sounds more emphatic, like we all are going. In normal speech, כולנו הולכים is enough.

Because the subject is plural, and Hebrew present-tense verbs agree in number and gender.

Here the subject is כולנו = all of us, so the verb must be plural.

הולכים is the masculine plural form.

Hebrew uses masculine plural when:

• the group is all male, or
• the group is mixed, or
• the gender is unspecified

If the group were entirely female, you would say:

אחרי העבודה כולנו הולכות הביתה.

Formally, הולכים is present tense.

It is the masculine plural present form of ללכת = to go / to walk.

So literally it means something like:

• go
• are going

In everyday Hebrew, the present tense can also describe a habitual action:

• After work, we all go home

If you wanted a clear future meaning, Hebrew would usually use a future form, such as:

• נלך = we will go

The base verb is ללכת, meaning to go or to walk.

Present-tense forms are:

• הולך = going / goes (masculine singular)
• הולכת = going / goes (feminine singular)
• הולכים = going / go (masculine plural)
• הולכות = going / go (feminine plural)

So כולנו הולכים means all of us are going / go.

הביתה means homeward, or more naturally in English, home.

This is a very common Hebrew form. The ending -ה here is an old directional ending, sometimes called the directional he. It gives the sense of to or toward a place.

So:

• הביתה = home / to home
• ירושלימה = to Jerusalem (more literary/old-fashioned style)

In modern everyday Hebrew, הביתה is extremely common and natural.

Because the idea of to/toward is already built into הביתה.

In English, you say:

• go home

not usually:

• go to home

Hebrew works similarly here:

• הולכים הביתה = go home

So Hebrew does not need a separate ל- or another word for to in this expression.

These are easy to confuse, but they mean different things:

• הביתה = home, to home, homeward

  • אנחנו הולכים הביתה = we are going home

• בבית = at home / in the house

  • אנחנו בבית = we are at home

• לבית = to a house / to the house / to home in some contexts, but not the usual everyday way to say go home

  • הוא נכנס לבית = he entered the house

For the specific idea go home, הביתה is the normal choice.

Yes. Hebrew word order is more flexible than English word order.

This sentence starts with אחרי העבודה because that time phrase is being placed first, which is very natural.

You could also say:

• כולנו הולכים הביתה אחרי העבודה

Both are grammatical. The difference is mainly emphasis:

• אחרי העבודה... puts the time first
• כולנו הולכים... puts the subject/action first

Hebrew often moves time expressions around more freely than English does.

Yes, very natural.

אחרי העבודה כולנו הולכים הביתה sounds like normal spoken Hebrew.

It can describe:

• a regular routine
• what usually happens after work
• what is happening in a specific situation, depending on context

It is simple, idiomatic, and completely natural.

Only the verb would change:

• masculine/mixed group: אחרי העבודה כולנו הולכים הביתה
• all-female group: אחרי העבודה כולנו הולכות הביתה

That is because כולנו itself does not show gender, but the verb does.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

acharei ha-avodá kulánu holkhím habáyta

A few notes:

• אחרי = acharei
• העבודה = ha-avodá
• כולנו = kulánu
• הולכים = holkhím
• הביתה = habáyta

The main stress is usually near the end of each word:

• a-cha-REI
• ha-a-vo-DA
• ku-la-NU
• hol-khim
• ha-BAI-ta

The kh sound in הולכים is like the sound in Bach or Scottish loch, not like English k.