היינו אמורים לתקן את התריס היום, כי הוא תקוע ולא נסגר טוב.

היינו אמורים + infinitive means we were supposed to + verb.

So:

• היינו = we were
• אמורים = supposed / expected / meant
• לתקן = to fix

Together, היינו אמורים לתקן means we were supposed to fix.

This is a very common Hebrew structure:

• אני אמור ללכת = I am supposed to go
• היא אמורה להתקשר = she is supposed to call
• הם היו אמורים להגיע = they were supposed to arrive

Because אמור behaves like an adjective, it changes for gender and number:

• אמור = masculine singular
• אמורה = feminine singular
• אמורים = masculine plural / mixed group
• אמורות = feminine plural

Because היינו puts the idea in the past: we were supposed to.

Compare:

• אנחנו אמורים לתקן את התריס היום = we are supposed to fix the shutter/blind today
• היינו אמורים לתקן את התריס היום = we were supposed to fix the shutter/blind today

In many contexts, היינו אמורים suggests that this was the plan or expectation, and often implies that it did not happen yet, or maybe did not happen at all.

Also, Hebrew often drops subject pronouns when the verb already shows the subject. So היינו already means we were, and אנחנו is unnecessary unless you want emphasis.

Because after אמור / אמורים, Hebrew normally uses an infinitive.

• לתקן = to fix
• The ל־ here is the infinitive marker, like to in English.

So:

• אמורים לתקן = supposed to fix
• אמור לבוא = supposed to come
• אמורה לעבוד = supposed to work

The basic pattern is:

היה / היינו / היו + אמור/ה/ים/ות + infinitive

את marks a definite direct object.

Here, התריס means the shutter / the blind, and because it is definite (the blind), Hebrew puts את before it:

• לתקן את התריס = to fix the blind
• ראיתי את הילד = I saw the boy
• אכלנו את העוגה = we ate the cake

If the object were indefinite, you usually would not use את:

• לתקן תריס = to fix a shutter / blind

So את does not itself mean the. It is just the marker used before a definite direct object.

תריס usually means a shutter, especially a window shutter or roller shutter in Israeli Hebrew. In some contexts, English speakers may translate it as blind, depending on what kind of window covering is meant.

So:

• התריס = the shutter / the blind

In everyday Israeli usage, this often refers to the thing on a window that rolls up and down or opens and closes.

Because the sentence is talking about a specific shutter/blind: the one they intended to fix.

The prefix ה־ is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the:

• תריס = a shutter / shutter
• התריס = the shutter

Since it is a specific object, the sentence uses the definite form.

Yes, היום can move around a bit.

In the sentence:

• היינו אמורים לתקן את התריס היום = we were supposed to fix the shutter today

That placement is very natural.

You could also say:

• היום היינו אמורים לתקן את התריס

That puts a little more focus on today.

Hebrew word order is flexible, but the original version sounds very normal and neutral.

כי means because here.

So the second part explains the reason:

• כי הוא תקוע ולא נסגר טוב = because it is stuck and doesn’t close properly

Very common uses of כי:

• אני עייף כי עבדתי הרבה = I’m tired because I worked a lot
• לא באתי כי הייתי חולה = I didn’t come because I was sick

In some contexts כי can also mean that, but here it clearly means because.

תקוע means stuck, jammed, or lodged.

In this sentence:

• הוא תקוע = it is stuck

Grammatically, תקוע behaves like an adjective here, even though historically it comes from a verb root.

Examples:

• הדלת תקועה = the door is stuck
• אני תקוע בפקק = I’m stuck in traffic

Notice agreement:

• התריס is masculine singular, so תקוע is masculine singular.
• If the noun were feminine, you would use תקועה.

הוא means he / it, and here it means it.

Hebrew nouns have grammatical gender, and תריס is masculine, so the pronoun is הוא.

So:

• התריס = masculine noun
• הוא תקוע = it is stuck

If the noun were feminine, Hebrew would use היא:

• הדלת תקועה / היא תקועה = the door is stuck / it is stuck

This is a very common question.

• סוגר usually means closes in the active sense: someone/something closes something.
• נסגר means closes / gets closed in the sense that the thing itself closes.

Here, the subject is התריס. The shutter is not closing something else; it is the thing that is supposed to close. So Hebrew naturally says:

• התריס לא נסגר טוב = the shutter doesn’t close well / properly

Compare:

• אני סוגר את התריס = I close the shutter
• התריס נסגר = the shutter closes / is closing / gets closed

So נסגר is the natural choice when talking about the shutter’s own ability to close.

נסגר is the present masculine singular form of the verb להיסגר or, depending on how you analyze it, the Nifal form related to לסגור.

In practical learner terms, it means:

• נסגר = closes / is closed / gets closed
• לא נסגר טוב = doesn’t close properly

Other present forms are:

• נסגרת = feminine singular
• נסגרים = masculine plural
• נסגרות = feminine plural

Examples:

• החלון נסגר = the window closes
• הדלת נסגרת = the door closes

Yes. In everyday Hebrew, טוב often means well or properly, not just good.

So:

• לא נסגר טוב = doesn’t close well / properly

This is very natural spoken Hebrew.

Other examples:

• זה לא עובד טוב = it doesn’t work well
• אני לא שומע טוב = I don’t hear well
• הדלת לא נפתחת טוב = the door doesn’t open properly

If you translated word-for-word as not closes good, that would sound odd in English, but it is normal Hebrew usage.

The ו־ means and.

So:

• תקוע ולא נסגר טוב = stuck and doesn’t close well

Hebrew often attaches small words like ו־ directly to the next word:

• ו + לא = ולא
• ו + הוא = והוא
• ו + הבית = והבית

So ולא is simply and not.

It is very natural everyday Hebrew.

Nothing in it sounds overly formal. A native speaker could easily say this in conversation about something in the house.

A few especially common spoken features here are:

• היינו אמורים = very common
• תקוע = very common
• לא נסגר טוב = very everyday phrasing

So this is a good example of normal modern spoken Hebrew.

Only the אמורים part would change, because it agrees with the subject we.

For an all-female group:

• היינו אמורות לתקן את התריס היום, כי הוא תקוע ולא נסגר טוב.

Why?

• אמורים = masculine plural / mixed plural
• אמורות = feminine plural

The rest stays the same because התריס is still masculine singular, so:

• הוא תקוע
• לא נסגר

do not change.

A natural pronunciation would be roughly:

Hayínu amurím letakén et hatrís hayóm, ki hu takúa velo nisgár tov.

A few stress points:

• היינו → ha-YI-nu
• אמורים → a-mu-RIM
• לתקן → le-ta-KEN
• התריס → ha-TRIS
• היום → ha-YOM
• תקוע → ta-KU-a
• נסגר → nis-GAR

The stress is usually on the last syllable in many of these words.