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- "הוא שוכח ממני."
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Cool, in Italian it's the same structure, dimenticare DI qualcuno. Ironically, i keep forgetting the Hebrew word for forget over and over again :D
I think it's because they there too many words at us in this section for the Hebrew. I struggled, and still do, with a few words.
The words are too similar to other words, it's a problem in each section. It's a known hindrance in vocab acquisition to have similar sounding words learnt together. You're better off learning the words (not at the same time) before the section comes up. Here's the explanation and what to do: https://blog.fluent-forever.com/efficient-way-to-learn-vocabulary/
I do a lot of reading and even memorizing sentences from stories or songtexts. This provides me with vocabularies linked to a context and thinking of certain story parts, situations, characters or melodies bring back the vocabulary.
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I have to guess that this is one of those awkward verbs that need a preposition because they can.
To explain the preposition: in classical Hebrew this verb could take מן, although it often did not. It does in תהילים (Psalm) 102:5 כי שכחתי מאכל לחמי, but does not in Ps 9:13. Some verbs take prepositions. Another verb that takes מן is מבסוט מ, "pleased with." Verbs of fear and distancing take מן, whereas verbs of giving and communicating usually take ל (Glinert, Modern Hebrew, 61). Certain verbs take ב such as לגעת ב, תומך ב, צופה ב. Sometimes there are additional curveballs, such as when לקרוא ב "to read" but לקרוא ל "to call." It's a good idea to acquire a dictionary that indicates the preposition that tends to go with a particular verb. If your hand dictionary does not, then you have to put the preposition tendency in by hand, as I am doing with my outdated Dov Ben-Abba (1977). Prepositions can be among the hardest aspects of language learning.
DL accepted "He is forgetting me", so they would very likely have accepted "He forgets me" also.
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There is no "ih" vowel in Hebrew in general, but the "ee" sound very often relaxes to an "ih" sound.
Isn't ממני "from me". If so does not that translate to "He is forgotten feom me". can someone elaborate?
I'm still a novice here, but there must be a more extensive meaning to the '-מ' prefix than simply 'from.' Phrases seldom translate perfectly from one language to another.
This sentence sounds like "He forgets from me" to a native English speaker. I assume this is just a differing form of prepositions in between languages?
Can also mean "about"? Does the prefix "מ" ever mean "about," or only "from"? ממנ
