תני לי את השדכן; אני רוצה לחבר את הדפים לפני שאני שולחת אותם.

תני is the singular feminine imperative of the verb לתת (to give).

So תני לי means give me when you are speaking to one woman.

Other forms would be:

• תן לי — to one man
• תנו לי — to more than one person

So this sentence tells us that the speaker is addressing a female.

Here את is not translated. It is the direct object marker.

Hebrew uses את before a definite direct object, usually one with ה־ (the) or with a possessive.

So:

• את השדכן = the stapler as a direct object
• את הדפים = the pages as a direct object

You do not translate את as a separate English word. It just marks that the noun is receiving the action.

Yes — it can mean both.

• שדכן can mean matchmaker
• In modern everyday Hebrew, it can also mean stapler

This is one of those cases where context tells you which meaning is intended. Because the sentence talks about connecting pages, השדכן clearly means the stapler here.

Not exactly. לחבר literally means to connect, join, attach, or put together.

In this sentence, it means something like:

• attach the pages
• join the pages together

Since the speaker just asked for a stapler, the intended sense is probably staple the pages together, but the verb itself is broader than that.

A more specific verb for to staple is לשדך. So you could also hear:

• אני רוצה לשדך את הדפים

That would be more specifically I want to staple the pages.

שאני is really two parts:

• ש־ — a linking word, often meaning that, when, or introducing a subordinate clause
• אני — I

After לפני (before), Hebrew often uses ש־ to introduce the next clause:

• לפני שאני שולחת אותם = before I send them

So the structure is:

• לפני ש... = before...

This is very common Hebrew.

Because the speaker is female.

In Hebrew, the present-tense form agrees with the subject's gender:

• אני שולח — I send / am sending said by a man
• אני שולחת — I send / am sending said by a woman

So שולחת tells us that the person speaking is female.

Both are possible, but they feel a little different.

• לפני שאני שולחת אותם is very natural in everyday Hebrew
• לפני שאשלח אותם is also correct, and it sounds a bit more explicitly future

Hebrew often uses a present form in expressions like this when talking about something that is about to happen or is part of a planned action.

So:

• לפני שאני שולחת אותם = very natural conversational Hebrew
• לפני שאשלח אותם = also correct, a bit more formal or more clearly future-oriented

אותם means them, and it refers back to הדפים (the pages).

Just like in English you say:

• I want to connect the pages before I send them

Hebrew also repeats the object with a pronoun:

• לפני שאני שולחת אותם

The form אותם is used because דפים is masculine plural.

Related forms are:

• אותו — him / it (masculine singular)
• אותה — her / it (feminine singular)
• אותם — them (masculine plural)
• אותן — them (feminine plural)

In unpointed Hebrew, רוצה can be read as:

• rotze — masculine singular
• rotza — feminine singular

The spelling is the same, so you figure it out from context.

Later in the sentence, we get שולחת, which is clearly feminine singular, so we know the speaker is female. That means אני רוצה here is pronounced ani rotza.

So the sentence is pronounced approximately:

Tni li et ha-shadkhan; ani rotza lechaber et ha-dapim lifnei she-ani sholakhat otam.