אני רוצה לבדוק אם הדרכון שלי עדיין בתוקף.

I want to check whether my passport is still valid.

Breakdown of אני רוצה לבדוק אם הדרכון שלי עדיין בתוקף.

• אני: I
• לרצות: to want
• ב: in
• אם: whether

Questions & Answers about אני רוצה לבדוק אם הדרכון שלי עדיין בתוקף.

Why is אני רוצה used here, and what changes if the speaker is female?

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.

What does לבדוק mean, and why does it start with ל־?

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.

What does אם mean here? Is it the same as English if?

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.