Well, I realized I don't actually know what crabs eat. Turns out there is a whole website devoted to that. It's called What do crabs eat?

(To clarify: סרטן also means ‘cancer’, as in the disease and the zodiac sign.)

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Interestingly the word "סרטן" means "Cancer" in my language too.. its pronounced pretty much similarly too "سرطان" (sar-taan) in Urdu..

Context. Cancers don't eat peach.

Well, I guess not all food-related slang works in Hebrew too. The only slang word I know is כּוּס, which is, well, a bit risqué.

It sounds right to me. The reish is usually not trilled by most speakers when it doesn't have a vowel (uses the shva nikkud).

That's how i hear it too

Same thing. The subtle differences in meaning conveyed by using the present continuous/progressive tense rather than the present simple tense does not exist in Hebrew.

You have to understand from context whether the intent is that the crab is eating right now, or whether the crab has a habit of eating peach.

efahey1, please stop doing this... (Or explain why you do). Thanks!