אני רוצה לבדוק אם הדרכון שלי עדיין בתוקף.

אני means I, but it does not show gender.

The verb form רוצה is written the same for both masculine and feminine in everyday unpointed Hebrew, but it is pronounced differently:

• male speaker: אני רוצה = ani rotze
• female speaker: אני רוצה = ani rotza

So the spelling usually stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

לבדוק is the infinitive to check / to examine.

The prefix ל־ often marks the infinitive in Hebrew, so it frequently corresponds to English to before a verb.

Here:

• בדק is the root idea, connected to checking/examining
• לבדוק = to check

So אני רוצה לבדוק literally works like I want to check.

Here אם means whether / if in the sense of introducing an indirect yes/no question.

So in this sentence it means something like:

• to check if / whether...

This is not really a conditional if like If it rains, I’ll stay home. Hebrew uses אם for both ideas, so context tells you which meaning is intended.

In this sentence, it clearly means whether.

In Modern Hebrew, possession is very often expressed as:

• noun + של + pronoun

So:

• הדרכון שלי = my passport
• literally: the passport of mine

This is the normal word order. Unlike English, the possessive pronoun usually comes after the noun in this structure.

The ה־ is the definite article, meaning the.

In Modern Hebrew, when you say my passport, it is usually treated as a specific, definite object, so הדרכון שלי is very natural and standard.

So:

• הדרכון שלי = my passport / the passport שלי
• דרכון שלי without ה־ is much less standard in ordinary modern usage

This is a common pattern with שלי / שלך / שלו etc.

עדיין means still.

In this sentence it modifies the idea of the passport continuing to be valid:

• הדרכון שלי עדיין בתוקף
• my passport is still valid

Its position is natural here: it comes before the phrase it affects, בתוקף.

בתוקף means valid, especially for things like documents, laws, licenses, visas, and passports.

Literally, it is closer to in force or in effect:

• תוקף = force, validity, effect
• ב־ = in

So בתוקף literally means something like in effect / in force.

This is a very common Hebrew expression for official validity:

• הוויזה בתוקף = the visa is valid
• הרישיון כבר לא בתוקף = the license is no longer valid

In the present tense, Hebrew usually does not use a separate word for is / am / are in sentences like this.

So Hebrew says:

• הדרכון שלי עדיין בתוקף
• literally: my passport still valid

But the meaning is naturally my passport is still valid.

This is very normal Hebrew grammar. In the past or future, forms of להיות (to be) can appear, but in the present they are usually omitted in this kind of sentence.

Usually, no.

After לבדוק when you mean check whether / check if, Hebrew normally uses אם:

• לבדוק אם... = to check whether...

Using ש־ would not sound right here, because ש־ usually introduces that-clauses, not indirect yes/no questions.

Compare:

• אני יודע שהדרכון בתוקף = I know that the passport is valid
• אני רוצה לבדוק אם הדרכון בתוקף = I want to check whether the passport is valid

So אם is the correct choice in this sentence.

You often can leave it out in context, but keeping it is very natural and often clearer.

Hebrew present-tense forms like רוצה show gender and number, but not person very clearly by themselves in every context, so אני helps make the subject explicit.

• אני רוצה לבדוק... = clear and natural
• רוצה לבדוק... = possible in conversation, especially if the subject is already obvious

For learners, using אני is the safest and most standard choice.

Yes, דרכון is the standard Hebrew word for passport.

You may also hear פספורט, which is a loanword based on passport, especially in casual speech. But דרכון is the standard and more formal/native choice, and it is the word you would expect in writing, official contexts, and careful speech.

So in this sentence, הדרכון שלי is exactly what you would normally expect.