אם הכאב יתחזק בלילה, הרופאה אמרה שאפשר ללכת לחדר מיון בבית החולים הקרוב.

אם means if here and introduces a condition.

In Hebrew, אם can sometimes also mean whether, but in this sentence it is clearly conditional:

• אם הכאב יתחזק בלילה... = If the pain gets stronger at night...

So this is a standard if-clause.

Because Hebrew normally uses the future tense for a real future condition after אם.

So:

• אם הכאב יתחזק = if the pain gets stronger

This is very common in Hebrew:

• אם ירד גשם = if it rains
• אם תרגיש רע = if you feel bad

Even though English sometimes uses the present after if, Hebrew usually uses the future in this kind of sentence.

יתחזק comes from the verb להתחזק, which means to become stronger or to strengthen oneself / grow stronger.

That fits הכאב well:

• הכאב יתחזק = the pain will intensify / get stronger

By contrast, יחזק comes from לחזק, which usually means to strengthen something:

• הוא יחזק את הקיר = he will strengthen the wall

So יתחזק is the natural choice because the pain is not strengthening something else; it is itself becoming stronger.

Because it agrees with הכאב.

• כאב is a masculine singular noun
• So the 3rd-person future verb is also masculine singular: יתחזק

In Hebrew, 3rd-person verbs usually show gender and number, so the form of the verb matches the subject.

בלילה means at night or during the night.

The ב־ prefix means in / at / during. Hebrew often uses ב־ with times:

• בבוקר = in the morning
• בערב = in the evening
• בלילה = at night

In pointed Hebrew, this is pronounced like ba-layla. In unpointed writing, בלילה is the normal spelling.

Because both the noun and the verb are feminine singular.

• רופאה = female doctor
• אמרה = she said

If it were a male doctor, it would be:

• הרופא אמר

So the sentence specifically refers to a woman doctor.

It is made of two parts:

• ש־ = that
• אפשר = possible / allowed / one can

So:

• הרופאה אמרה שאפשר... = The doctor said that it is possible...
• More naturally in English: The doctor said that you can...

In Hebrew, אפשר is often used impersonally, without saying exactly who can do the action. It often corresponds to English can, may, or it’s possible to.

Because after אפשר, Hebrew normally uses an infinitive.

• אפשר ללכת = it is possible to go / one can go
• אפשר לאכול = one can eat
• אפשר לחכות = one can wait

So ללכת is the natural form here. A finite future verb like ילך would not fit after אפשר in this structure.

חדר מיון is a noun phrase meaning emergency room.

Grammatically, it works like a construct phrase:

• חדר = room
• מיון = sorting / triage

Together: חדר מיון = emergency room

In this sentence it is indefinite, so there is no ה־:

• לחדר מיון = to an emergency room

If you wanted to say to the emergency room, you would usually say:

• לחדר המיון

So the version in the sentence sounds a bit more like go to an emergency room at the nearest hospital.

This is another very common construct phrase:

• בית = house
• חולים = sick people / the ill

Literally, בית החולים is something like the house of the sick, but it simply means hospital.

A useful grammar point:

• In Hebrew construct phrases, the definiteness is often shown on the second word
• So בית חולים = a hospital
• בית החולים = the hospital

With the prefix ב־:

• בבית החולים = in the hospital

Because the destination in the sentence is לחדר מיון.

The phrase בבית החולים הקרוב describes where that emergency room is located:

• ללכת לחדר מיון בבית החולים הקרוב
• literally: to go to an emergency room in the nearest hospital

So:

• ל־ marks where you are going: לחדר מיון
• ב־ marks the location of that room: בבית החולים הקרוב

If the sentence said לבית החולים הקרוב, the hospital itself would be the main destination.

הקרוב means the nearest / the close one.

It comes at the end because adjectives follow the noun in Hebrew. Here it describes בית החולים as a whole:

• בית החולים הקרוב = the nearest hospital

It is:

• masculine singular, because בית is masculine singular
• definite, because the whole phrase is definite

This is typical with construct phrases in Hebrew: the adjective comes after the whole phrase, not in the middle.

It can suggest more than one of those at once.

Depending on context, אפשר can mean:

• it is possible
• it is allowed
• you can

In this sentence, because it is medical advice, it most naturally means something like:

• the doctor said you can go
• the doctor said it would be appropriate / okay to go

It does not sound as strong as a command like you must go, but it is definitely presenting going to the ER as a valid option.