את לא חייבת לבוא בעצמך; אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל.

Because the sentence is addressed to a female singular person.

• את = you (to one woman)
• אתה = you (to one man)

Hebrew adjectives and some modal expressions agree with gender, so:

• את לא חייבת = you (fem.) don’t have to
• אתה לא חייב = you (masc.) don’t have to

If you were speaking to a man, the sentence would be:

אתה לא חייב לבוא בעצמך; אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל.

חייבת is the feminine singular form of חייב, which literally means obligated, required, or must/have to in context.

So את לא חייבת לבוא means:

• you don’t have to come
• literally: you are not obligated to come

This is a very common way in Hebrew to express have to / don’t have to.

Both can often be translated as don’t have to, but there is a slight nuance:

• לא חייבת = not required / not obligated
• לא צריכה = don’t need to

In many everyday situations, they overlap and either one may sound natural.

So these are both possible:

• את לא חייבת לבוא בעצמך = you’re not obligated to come in person
• את לא צריכה לבוא בעצמך = you don’t need to come in person

The first often emphasizes lack of obligation; the second often emphasizes lack of necessity.

Because after words like חייב/ה and אפשר, Hebrew commonly uses the infinitive.

• חייבת לבוא = have to come
• אפשר לשלוח = it’s possible to send / one can send

So:

• לבוא = to come
• לשלוח = to send

This is very similar to English structures like have to come or can send.

בעצמך means yourself or in person.

In this sentence, לבוא בעצמך means:

• to come yourself
• more naturally in English here: to come in person

It emphasizes that the person does not need to physically come.

Because the sentence is addressed to a woman, the form is בעצמך.
To a man, it would also often be written בעצמך, but pronounced differently depending on style/tradition; in Modern Hebrew spelling without vowels, the same written form is commonly used.

אפשר is a very common impersonal Hebrew word meaning:

• it’s possible
• one can
• you can (in a general sense)

So אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל literally means:

• it’s possible to send the document by email

But in natural English, that often becomes:

• you can send the document by email
• the document can be sent by email

Hebrew often prefers this impersonal structure where English might use you can.

This את is the direct object marker. It does not mean you here.

Hebrew uses את before a definite direct object:

• לשלוח את המסמך = to send the document

Why is המסמך definite? Because it has ה־:

• מסמך = a document
• המסמך = the document

So:

• לשלוח מסמך = to send a document
• לשלוח את המסמך = to send the document

This את usually has no separate English translation.

Hebrew has two different words spelled את:

1. את = you (feminine singular subject pronoun)
2. את = the direct object marker

In this sentence:

• את לא חייבת → here את means you
• לשלוח את המסמך → here את is the direct object marker

You can tell from context and position:

• At the beginning, before לא חייבת, it is clearly the pronoun you
• Before המסמך, it marks the definite object

המסמך means the document, while מסמך means a document.

Since the sentence refers to a specific document, Hebrew uses the definite article ה־:

• מסמך = a document
• המסמך = the document

Because it is definite, it also takes the direct object marker את after לשלוח:

• לשלוח את המסמך = to send the document

באימייל means by email or via email.

It is made of:

• ב־ = in / by / via
• אימייל = email

In Hebrew, ב־ can express not only location but also means or method.
So here it means something like through email / by email.

Yes.

Common alternatives include:

• במייל = by mail/email, very common and informal
• באימייל = by email, common and natural
• בדוא"ל = by email, more formal or official

So all of these can work depending on style:

• אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל
• אפשר לשלוח את המסמך במייל
• אפשר לשלוח את המסמך בדוא"ל

The semicolon links two closely related parts:

1. את לא חייבת לבוא בעצמך
2. אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל

The idea is:

• you don’t need to come in person;
• sending the document by email is an alternative

In everyday writing, you might also see a comma or a period instead. The semicolon just makes the relationship especially clear.

If you were speaking to one man, it would be:

אתה לא חייב לבוא בעצמך; אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל.

The changes are:

• את → אתה
• חייבת → חייב

The rest stays the same.

Yes, very natural.

Hebrew commonly puts things in this order:

• subject pronoun
• negation
• adjective/modal expression
• infinitive

So:

• את לא חייבת לבוא = literally you not obligated to-come

And the second part:

• אפשר לשלוח את המסמך באימייל = it’s possible to send the document by email

This is normal, idiomatic Hebrew.