אני מקווה להתחזק עד סוף השבוע.

Because the sentence describes your current state of hoping, not a future action of hoping.

So אני מקווה means I hope / I am hoping, and the future idea is expressed by להתחזק.

A very natural alternative is:

אני מקווה שאתחזק עד סוף השבוע

That version uses אתחזק (I will get stronger) explicitly in the future.

The ל־ here marks the infinitive, like to in English.

So:

• להתחזק = to get stronger
• לקוות = to hope

After verbs like מקווה, רוצה, צריך, and יכול, Hebrew often uses an infinitive:

• אני רוצה לאכול = I want to eat
• אני מקווה להתחזק = I hope to get stronger

להתחזק means to get stronger, to become stronger, or sometimes to strengthen oneself.

It is different from לחזק, which usually means to strengthen something or someone else.

Compare:

• להתחזק = to get stronger
• לחזק = to strengthen

Examples:

• אני רוצה להתחזק = I want to get stronger
• אני רוצה לחזק את הגב = I want to strengthen my back

So in your sentence, the speaker is talking about their own condition improving.

Literally, it means until the end of the week.

In this sentence, though, the natural English meaning is often by the end of the week. It gives a time goal or deadline for the hoped-for improvement.

So עד can sometimes feel like:

• until
• up to
• and in some contexts, effectively by

The exact shade depends on the sentence.

It can mean either, depending on context.

• סוף השבוע literally = the end of the week
• In modern Israeli Hebrew, it also often means the weekend

In אני מקווה להתחזק עד סוף השבוע, the idea is usually by the end of the week / by the weekend. The context of recovery or improvement makes it sound like a time target.

Because Hebrew often prefers a construct phrase (called smikhut) instead of using של.

So:

• סוף השבוע = the end of the week
• literally: end of-the-week

In this structure, the first noun often does not take ה־, and the definiteness comes from the second noun:

• שבוע = a week
• השבוע = the week
• סוף השבוע = the end of the week

You could say הסוף של השבוע, but it is usually less natural here.

Yes, Hebrew present-tense forms usually agree with gender and number.

With this verb, the unpointed spelling is often the same, but the pronunciation differs:

• masculine singular: מקווה = mekavé
• feminine singular: מקווה = mekavá

So both a man and a woman may write:

אני מקווה

But they may pronounce it differently.

That is a common feature of unpointed Hebrew spelling: different forms can look identical in writing.

Sometimes, yes, but here it is often helpful to keep it.

In Hebrew, present-tense verb forms usually show gender and number, but not clearly person the way past and future forms do. So מקווה by itself could mean something like hoping without fully specifying I unless the context makes it obvious.

That means:

• אני מקווה להתחזק עד סוף השבוע = clear and complete
• מקווה להתחזק עד סוף השבוע = possible in conversation, especially if the context already makes I obvious

So omission is possible, but אני makes the sentence more explicit.

No. להתחזק can be used in several ways:

• physical: getting stronger after illness, injury, or exercise
• emotional/mental: becoming more resilient
• spiritual/religious: becoming stronger in faith or religious practice
• general recovery: regaining strength or energy

So the exact sense depends on context. In many everyday situations, it can simply mean to recover or to feel stronger.

Yes. A few natural alternatives are:

• אני מקווה שאתחזק עד סוף השבוע
  More explicit future: I hope that I’ll get stronger by the end of the week

• אני מקווה להרגיש יותר טוב עד סוף השבוע
  I hope to feel better by the end of the week

• אני מקווה שארגיש יותר חזק עד סוף השבוע
  I hope I’ll feel stronger by the end of the week

Your original sentence is completely natural; these are just slightly different ways to express the same general idea.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

ani mekavé le-hit-kha-zék ad sof ha-sha-VU-a

A few notes:

• ח in להתחזק is a throaty sound, often written kh, like the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach
• Stress is usually near the end in:
  • mekavé
  • lehitkhazék
  • hashavúa

So the rhythm is roughly:

a-NI me-ka-VE le-hit-kha-ZEK ad sof ha-sha-VU-a