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Come on, don't be so nineties...
I learned strawberry = תות שדה. I see that just תות can mean strawberry (or mulberry, whatever that is) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%AA
My question is... is it more common to leave off the "field" part?
Yes it is very common to leave off the field part when referring to strawberry But when I say תות עץ (mulberry) I usually keep the Etz We don't have many kinds of berries in Israel :-(
The way I learned it, תות just means berry.
And that yes, strawberry = תות שדה
Yes, technically, but for some reason strawberry became the default תות
I wrote "i am seeing the strawberry" and it took it as a mistake..what is the difference?
Certain verbs in English are known as stative verbs and under normal circumstances they are never used in the progressive (-ing form).
When we "break the rules", the verbs gain different meanings. In this particular case:
Who's she seeing? = Who is she dating?
There isn't. There are two words with the letters את: et and at. The latter is the female singular of 'you'. The former, the direct object marker (which has no direct translation in English).
It's not really a question, but I have typed "I see the strawberry" and I get " there is another correct solution I see the strawberry." Is the period such an important thing here?
If you look closely, the alternate "I see the strawberry" contains double space. I think it was creator's unintended error.
