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It's interesting to know about the etymology for the words like in this words it comes from a proto-semitic origin "halak-" which means "to go" I'm a native Arabic speaker and this word means "to perish or to die". In Hebrew it means "to go" which is really close to the meaning of dying in English like when you say "She is gone". These things really excite me.
Also in hebrew sometimes you can use it with this meaning or use it with things with the meaning of losing them, but it's colloquial and uncommon. Also a very common word for dying is 'הלך לעולמו', literally 'went to his world'/
Akl in Arabic is to eat like Heb, but Halaak is perish. As in the well known verse of John's Gospel "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that any one who believes in him would not PERISH but have eternal life" In Arabic "In hakaza aHabba Allah al 3alam, innahu bazala Ibnahu al wahid, li kay len YAHLIK ahad men yu'men bihi, wa lekin lehum al Hayat al abadiyya"
yes. הלכה (halakha), or Jewish law, comes from the same root. I've heard one liberal translation as "the path one walks."
more here: http://www.jewfaq.org/halakhah.htm
Are these verbs conjugated differently for 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, plural and also gender?
Is הולכת just for I am going/walking?
Yes אני הולך - if you're a man אני הולכת - if you're a woman הן הולכות - plural feminine הם הולכים plural masculine
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food, eat, like/love, and now go/walk all seem alike to me. Definitions in the Words tab would help me out tremendously.
That letter sounds like an English h. At ends of words, it is silent, unless it has a dot (mappiq) in it. Mappiq is the same as dagesh, but different function.
They really need to do something about the volume of the woman's voice. I had to turn the volume up to full to hear her.
Dear Duolingo, please, add the infinitive form of the verb to the pop-up menu which is seen when you click on a verb.
I wish they had niqqud. So much easier to figure out how to pronounce it.
Please do something about the woman's voice level. Please! It is so frustrating!
I've reported the audio for "not sounding right" (the only slightly valid option I had open to me). It probably DOES sound right, but it's far too quiet. The volume definitely needs to be turned up on it quite a bit.
Does "הלך" mean both "go" and "walk?" And is that the most normal common word for both?
Isn't this letter כ suppoused to sound like k? So why do i hear holekhet and not holeket?
The hebrew letter kaf can be pronounced k or ch as in Bach. In sacred writing a dagesh is shown to indicate the k sound. These vowels are not written in modern hebrew.
When is the Kaf pronounced Kh and not K? How many letters in Hebrew can make that characteristic KHHHHH sound?
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In modern Hebrew, "ח" chet/Het and "כ" chaf and "ך" chaf sofit or final chaf make the "ch/kh" sound. Some Sephardic and Arabic speakers of Hebrew still pronounce the letters differently, though. "כ" is called "kaf" and pronounced "k" at the beginning of words and called "chaf" and pronounced "ch/kh" in the middle of words. There may be exceptions, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. It is always written "ך" and pronounced "ch/kh" at the end of words.
The woman's voice is barely understandable. Sounds completely uninterested.
I'm always told, that my sentences like
את חולכת, אני הולכ are wrong. Then I don't know what the mistake is - the words at the loudspeaker sign and my own are exactly the same!? Can someone explain this? תודה רבה!
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Well, there are mistakes in what you wrote, in both examples: אני הולך (not הולכ)
Also, you wrote את, but that means "you" and here they ask for "I", so that is definitely a mistake. Also, instead of הולכת you wrote חולכת. Yes, they are similar looking (and sounding) letters, often causing confusion among learners, but they are different letters nonetheless, and we need to learn to use the correct ones.
So, if we have a sentence "I am going", the only possible solutions when translating into Hebrew can be:
אני הולך (if the speaker is male)
אני הולכת (if the speaker is female)
As far as I know, both of these are accepted answers.
