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- "הצבע של הינשוף הוא ירוק."
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BezalelP
1930
You are changing the focus from the color to the owl. The owl's color is green = לינשוף יש צבע ירוק
tsuj1g1r1
893
The Hebrew copula (which translates to verb "to be" in English) is one of the third person pronouns הוא היא הם הן, as you indicated in this discussion (https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16271631). Let's not forget that Hebrew doesn't have a neuter gender, just masculine and feminine. זה translates to "it" sometimes (especially when it's a dummy pronoun that doesn't refer to anything in particular), but the correspondence is not full.
Nathan173901
199
צבה (tzeva) sounds funny in Polish, because it looks like "cewa", a hypothetical augmentative of the word "cewka" ("coil" or "urethra").