הנהגת בלמה בזמן.

Yes. Here הנהגת means the female driver. The ending -ת is a common feminine ending in Hebrew nouns.

The masculine form would be הנהג = the male driver.

That feminine subject is also why the verb is feminine: בלמה = she braked.

A very helpful clue is the ה־ at the beginning. Here it is the definite article, meaning the, so הנהגת is the driver.

Without vowels, some Hebrew forms can look ambiguous, but in this sentence the structure makes it clear:

• הנהגת = the subject noun
• בלמה = the verb

So the sentence is built as subject + verb + adverbial phrase.

בלמה is the past tense, third-person feminine singular form of לבלום, which means to brake.

So:

• בלם = he braked
• בלמה = she braked

It agrees with הנהגת, which is feminine singular.

Because in Hebrew, the verb already tells you the person, number, and in the past tense also the gender.

So בלמה already means she braked.

That means the sentence could sometimes omit the noun if the context is clear:

• בלמה בזמן = She braked in time

Adding הנהגת makes it explicit who did the action.

In this sentence, בזמן means in time, in the sense of before it was too late.

That same word can also mean on time in other contexts, such as arriving punctually:

• הוא הגיע בזמן = He arrived on time

So the exact English translation depends on context. With בלמה, the natural meaning is braked in time.

Hebrew often attaches short prepositions directly to the following word.

The ב־ means in / at. When it combines with ה־ the, they are written together as one word.

So בזמן is one written unit, even though the idea is something like in/at the time.

In unpointed Hebrew, this is written simply as בזמן, with no separate standalone word for the.

Yes. Then it would usually mean a female driver braked in time, not the female driver.

So:

• הנהגת = the female driver
• נהגת = a female driver

The ה־ is the regular Hebrew definite article.

Modern Hebrew very commonly uses subject–verb order in ordinary statements, so הנהגת בלמה בזמן sounds natural and neutral.

Hebrew can also use verb-first order in some contexts, but that often sounds more literary, formal, or stylistically marked.

So for everyday modern Hebrew, this sentence order is perfectly normal.

בלמה specifically means applied the brakes or braked.

עצרה means stopped or came to a stop, which is more general.

So בלמה focuses on the action of braking, while עצרה focuses on the result of stopping. A person can בלום without fully stopping, so the two words are related but not identical.