אני מסרקת את פרוות הכלב.

Because the speaker is feminine singular.

In Hebrew present tense, the verb agrees with the subject in gender and number.
The subject here is אני (I), which does not itself show gender, so the verb tells you that the speaker is female.

From the verb לסרק (to comb), the present-tense forms are:

• מסרק — masculine singular
• מסרקת — feminine singular
• מסרקים — masculine plural
• מסרקות — feminine plural

So:

• אני מסרק = I comb / I am combing (said by a male speaker)
• אני מסרקת = I comb / I am combing (said by a female speaker)

Hebrew often allows the subject pronoun, and here אני is completely natural.

Even though מסרקת already tells you something about the subject, אני makes the sentence explicit: I am combing...

In Hebrew, subject pronouns are often included in normal speech and writing, especially for clarity or emphasis. So this sentence is perfectly standard.

You could sometimes omit it in context, but אני מסרקת את פרוות הכלב is the straightforward full sentence.

את is the direct object marker. It appears before a definite direct object.

Here, the thing being combed is פרוות הכלב (the dog's fur), which is definite, so Hebrew uses את:

• אני מסרקת את פרוות הכלב

Important: this את does not mean you.
Hebrew has another word אַתְּ meaning you (feminine singular), but that is a different word.

A good rule:

• If a noun is the direct object and is definite, use את
• If it is indefinite, usually no את

For example:

• אני מסרקת את הכלב = I comb the dog
• אני מסרקת כלב = I comb a dog

Because this sentence uses a construct relationship (called סמיכות) to mean the fur of the dog.

The basic noun is:

• פרווה = fur

But when it becomes the first noun in a construct chain, it changes form:

• פרוות הכלב = the dog's fur / the fur of the dog

So פרוות here is not plural. It is the construct form of פרווה.

This is a very common Hebrew pattern:

• דלת = door
• דלת הבית = the door of the house

Similarly:

• פרווה = fur
• פרוות הכלב = the dog's fur

Because in a construct chain (סמיכות), definiteness is usually shown on the second noun, not the first.

So:

• פרוות כלב = a dog's fur / dog fur
• פרוות הכלב = the dog's fur

Even though פרוות does not have ה־, the whole phrase is definite because הכלב is definite.

This is one of the key things English speakers need to get used to in Hebrew: in a construct phrase, the first noun often does not take ה־, even when the whole expression is definite.

Yes. A very common alternative is:

• אני מסרקת את הפרווה של הכלב.

This means the same thing: I am combing the dog's fur.

The two patterns are:

• פרוות הכלב — construct form, a bit tighter and more compact
• הפרווה של הכלב — the fur of the dog, often easier for learners to recognize

Both are correct. The construct form is very common in Hebrew, so it is worth learning well.

It can mean either one, depending on context.

Hebrew present tense usually does not distinguish between:

• simple present: I comb
• present progressive: I am combing

So:

• אני מסרקת את פרוות הכלב
  can mean
• I comb the dog's fur or
• I am combing the dog's fur

Context tells you which meaning is intended.

The dictionary form is לסרק, meaning to comb.

מסרקת is the feminine singular present-tense form.

A few useful related forms:

• לסרק — to comb
• מסרק — combing / combs (masculine singular present)
• מסרקת — combing / combs (feminine singular present)
• סירקתי — I combed
• אסרק — I will comb

This helps you connect the sentence form to the verb you would look up in a dictionary.

Because this is the normal Hebrew order: subject + verb + object.

Here:

• אני = subject
• מסרקת = verb
• את פרוות הכלב = direct object

So the structure is:

• I + am combing + the dog's fur

Hebrew can sometimes change word order for emphasis, but this sentence uses the most basic and neutral order.

Not necessarily. כלב is the standard dictionary word for dog, and it is grammatically masculine.

Hebrew nouns have grammatical gender, so כלב is masculine and כלבה is feminine. But depending on context, כלב can also be used in a general sense for dog.

So in this sentence, הכלב most naturally means the dog, without focusing on the animal's biological sex unless the context makes that important.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

ani mesaréket et parvát hakelev

A few notes:

• אני = ani
• מסרקת = mesaréket
• את = et
• פרוות = parvát
• הכלב = hakelev

The stress is commonly on:

• mesaREket
• parVAT
• haKElev

If you are learning pronunciation, it is especially useful to notice that פרוות here is pronounced as the construct form, not like the basic noun פרווה.