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- "האריה אוכל ילד."
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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
They don't say that in Hebrew. In Israel every crisis starts at 9000 already.
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.
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!)=
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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: - (
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!
I wonder if this shows up in any of the other languages or if it's unique to Hebrew. I mean, I've been told Israelis are a tough bunch, but this is extra :-D
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.
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.
