"האריה אוכל ילד."
Translation:The lion is eating a boy.
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Translation: The lion is hungry because men and women did not feed him? Or because the lion is hungry everytime/all the time. Ha ha ha
Help, I'm trapped in a Duolingo sentence factory, where a lion is eating a boy!
An innocent and very, very cute deception... We have been food most of the time we exist as a species!
Duo is mistaken, this is lion version of Harambe. He's trying to protect the boy.
I am not aware of a Bible verse about a lion killing a boy. But there's definitely bears doing that in the Bible.
Not a boy, but prophetic poetry about lions devouring men: וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ בְּתוֹךְ-אֲרָיוֹת, כְּפִיר הָיָה; וַיִּלְמַד לִטְרָף-טֶרֶף, אָדָם אָכָל. "And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men." --Ezekiel 19:6 (JPS)
Love the jokes. And agree. But question about lion's gender: אריה is a male lion. What does duolingo use for a lioness and why doesn't it specify in teaching that this lion is male?
Lioness is לביאה.
A full list of male and female animal words can be found here, along with their young.
After I wrote it, I remembered חמור vs אתון but didn't know or remember לביאה. Thanks. PS, they should teach it as "male lion", then. (Unless in English the word 'lion' doesn't include 'lioness' but still, c'mon!)=
Nor me, I tap it and nothing happens either. This is a tablet app, Samsung.
Links with text don't work in the smartphone apps, only links with URLs. It's really annoying!
Is there anyway to bookmark comments from DL android apps? The link's not working from the apps but i would like to try opening it from the desktop/browser version..
oh, and thanks for the list, mate! Much obliged. תודה רבה!
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Hebrew has a whole venery of words for lions and other wild beasts of the desert.
Well you can infer it is a male if you didnt know before because it says "אוכל" which is masculine and not " אוכלת" which is feminine.
Maybe this is why they included children in the food section...foreshadowing
If you can't remember lioness vs lion, try Talisman's song Zanzibar, זנזיבר טליסמאן A chorus line: כמו לביאה ואריה יה יה Like lioness & lion yeah yeah (... In a crazy jungle that has no end). Zanzibar: https://youtu.be/FC7_XEHNHIs
Song Translations: Lyricstranslate.com or Musixmatch
Getting back to the learning - sorry guys! - but did anyone hear the 'h' at the beginning for 'the'. Not me: - (
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Did anyone else not hear the ה before the אריה?? Tried of getting my answer marked as wrong when it wasn't!
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The audio is correct. It's the normal way most Israelis pronounce ה. It's a bit faint, but it's there.
Is there any difference (in usage rather than in meaning) between אריה and לביא?
I'm a learner not a speaker so I only know the translated version of this from the Wikipedia site, http://hebrew-academy.org.il/2015/03/02/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%95/
You mean adolescent lion? I I've only seen it as female form /lioness , or via Yiddish/Ashkenazi like Ljeb, lowe, Lew, Lewek, etc. (Who knew if you thought someone's name was Ari, in the records it could be written as Löwe).
Aslan = Jesus (true story, look it up). And Jesus doesn't eat children. Children eat Jesus. ("Take and eat, this is my body given up for you...")
aaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!! wow, favorite sentence. noooooooooooooooo!
Everytime I write אריה אוכל ילד It doesn't show an error but translates it THE lion which would be האריה ?????
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This exercise does want us to type "the lion"/האריה
Probably since it just one letter omitted, it is counting it correct but with a typo...I think that is usually what DuoLingo does for a one-letter error.
I cannot hear the "ה". After listening many times, it does seem the "a" sound may be extended to two syllables almost.
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In everyday speech, Israelis pronounce ה very softly, almost as if it weren't there, so you are hearing it correctly.
what is the reason why your program times suggest yeled ad biy and times child?
So, if you happen upon a situation like that you're just gonna keep quiet instead of warning the others?
so, my different question. If ילדים can mean 'children' rather than 'boys' why can't 'יליד' mean 'child' as well as 'boy'
ילד =boy ילדה= girl ילדים=boys ילדות=girls But any time you have a mix of male and female you go with the male word. So if it was a group of children but they were all girls you would use yaldote but if its a mix you would use yiladim.
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It doesn't even have an exclamation! Nothing to see here, just another boy getting eaten. Third one this week.
I thought that if a word ends in heh, it is feminine. That's what I got from a bee eats: דבורה אוכלת So why does that not apply here?
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Yes, it is true that words ending in ה are generally feminine, but not all of them. Also, when the noun ends in ה but the sound is "e", like here, then it will most likely be masculine. There are many such examples.
If you'd like, you can check out this post about misleading gender of Hebrew words - there is a list of those words that appear feminine, but are actually masculine and vice versa.
