הפגישה נדחתה בגלל הגשם.

The meeting was postponed because of the rain.

Breakdown of הפגישה נדחתה בגלל הגשם.

• פגישה: meeting
• גשם: rain
• בגלל: because of
• להידחות: to be postponed

Questions & Answers about הפגישה נדחתה בגלל הגשם.

Why is נדחתה in a feminine form?

Because פגישה (meeting) is a feminine singular noun in Hebrew.

In the past tense, Hebrew verbs normally agree with the subject in gender and number, so the verb also has to be feminine singular:

• הפגישה נדחתה = the meeting was postponed
• השיעור נדחה = the lesson/class was postponed
• הפגישות נדחו = the meetings were postponed

So נדחתה matches הפגישה.

What exactly is נדחתה grammatically?

נדחתה is a past-tense, 3rd-person feminine singular verb form.

It comes from the root ד-ח-ה, which is associated with meanings like push off, reject, or postpone. In this sentence, the natural meaning is was postponed.

A useful comparison:

• דחה = he postponed / pushed off / rejected
• נדחתה = she/it was postponed / was rejected

Here, since the subject is הפגישה, the meaning is the meeting was postponed.

Why doesn’t Hebrew use a separate word for was, like English does in was postponed?