גם אחרי שהמחלה עוברת, לפעמים לוקח זמן עד שמחלימים לגמרי.

Here גם literally means also, but in this kind of sentence it is often best understood as even:

• גם אחרי שהמחלה עוברת = even after the illness passes

So the idea is: recovery is not always immediate; even after the illness itself is over, it can still take time to feel fully well again.

The ש links אחרי to a whole clause.

Compare:

• אחרי המחלה = after the illness
• אחרי שהמחלה עוברת = after the illness passes

So אחרי ש־ means after followed by a verb clause, similar to after the illness passes in English.

Because המחלה is a feminine singular noun, and the present-tense verb agrees with it.

• המחלה = the illness → feminine singular
• therefore: עוברת = feminine singular form

Compare:

• הכאב עובר = the pain passes (masculine singular)
• המחלה עוברת = the illness passes (feminine singular)

Literally, עוברת comes from the verb לעבור, which usually means to pass or to go by/go through.

In this sentence, המחלה עוברת means something like:

• the illness passes
• the illness goes away
• the illness is over

So it is a very natural Hebrew way to talk about an illness ending.

This is an impersonal expression, like English it takes time.

Hebrew often says:

• לוקח זמן = it takes time

The word לוקח is masculine singular here because Hebrew commonly uses the masculine singular as a default in impersonal expressions, as if there were an unstated זה:

• זה לוקח זמן = it takes time

In everyday speech, the זה is often omitted.

Because Hebrew can use verbs impersonally, especially in common expressions.

In English, we often need a dummy subject:

• it takes time

In Hebrew, the equivalent can simply be:

• לוקח זמן

So the sentence does not need to say who or what is doing the taking. It just means that the process requires time.

This is a very common Hebrew pattern. The third person plural can be used in a general, unspecified way, similar to:

• people recover
• you recover
• one recovers

So:

• עד שמחלימים לגמרי literally = until they recover completely
• but the real sense is more general: until you/one fully recover(s)

This is often more natural in Hebrew than forcing a specific subject.

Yes, מחלימים is morphologically present tense.

Hebrew often uses the present tense in general statements and in subordinate clauses where English may use different tense wording. Here the sentence is describing a general truth:

• sometimes it takes time
• until people fully recover

So although the Hebrew form is present tense, the English translation may sound more natural as:

• until you fully recover
• before full recovery happens

The same is true for המחלה עוברת: it is present form, but in English we may translate it more naturally as the illness passes.

It means until fully recovering or until one fully recovers.

Breakdown:

• עד = until
• ש = links to the clause
• מחלימים = recover
• לגמרי = completely / fully

So the whole phrase means:

• until people fully recover
• until one is completely better

לגמרי means completely, totally, or fully.

So:

• מחלימים = recover
• מחלימים לגמרי = recover completely / fully

It emphasizes that the person is not just past the illness, but has returned fully to normal.

לפעמים means sometimes, and its position here is very natural:

• גם אחרי שהמחלה עוברת, לפעמים לוקח זמן...

This structure sets up the situation first:

• Even after the illness passes,

and then gives the main point:

• sometimes it takes time...

Hebrew is flexible with adverbs like לפעמים, but this word order sounds smooth and natural.

Not very naturally. A very literal version would be something like:

• Also after the illness passes, sometimes takes time until fully recover.

That is not idiomatic English, because English usually needs:

• even rather than also here
• an explicit it in it takes time
• a more natural clause such as until you fully recover

So a natural English rendering is:

• Even after the illness passes, sometimes it takes time to fully recover.

It is talking about people in general.

Nothing in the sentence points to one specific person. The plural מחלימים helps create that general meaning: this is a broad statement about recovery after illness, not a report about one named individual.

That is why the English meaning is often best expressed with:

• you
• one
• people

rather than they in a literal sense.