"הצבע של הינשוף הוא ירוק."
Translation:The color of the owl is green.
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Is it wrong to translate this as "The owl's color is green"? Is it that I'm changing the emphasis of the sentence if I do so?
You are changing the focus from the color to the owl. The owl's color is green = לינשוף יש צבע ירוק
“The owl has green color” sounds strange to me.
“Her cheeks have a healthy pink color” sounds okay though, and I think that’s because she has the color now but might not have the color later, unlike the owl, which I think does not change color with the seasons.
The owl's color is green = לינשוף יש צבע ירוק
That sounds unnatural. I would say הינשוף בצבע ירוק .
Ha-tseva shel yenshoof yarok. Is this not correct ? Why the sentence has הוא ?
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Looks like that would mean "the color of a green owl", and it omits the definite article in "הינשוף" (pronounced "hayanshoof"). Of course, if the exercise is to type what we hear, then we have to type in Hebrew, not in transliteration.
Duo explains the use of a copula, such as הוא in this sentence, in the Tips for the "Adj 1" skill on the website.
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why use the copula הוא here? I thought you only need it if the subject is not definite.
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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.
