A definite object and a new book

A learner receives the supplied Hebrew sentence קראתי את הספר החדש and explains it as “the new book read me”. The exercise asks for a structural account rather than a guess based on word order alone. The actual verb form identifies a first-person past action, את introduces a definite direct object, and the noun and adjective share definiteness. No larger literary passage or official translation rubric is provided. The learner should explain the sentence using these visible features and then distinguish the attributive noun phrase from a separate nominal statement. This is a local language-analysis exercise, not an assertion that every Hebrew sentence follows one rigid word order or that each word maps to exactly one English item. A full response may use English explanation while retaining the actual Hebrew forms.