"How are you?"

Translation: מה שלומך?

[zion11dotcom]

mah shlomékh (feminine singular)

shlomkhá (masculine)

[zion11dotcom]

feminine audio: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16398729

masculine audio: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16316201

[chicobanano]

What is the pronunciation of מה שלומכם

[rn2eOs]

Mahh shlohmchem

[Marilyn485714]

What is the difference between mah neeshma and mah shalomcha? Don't they both mean "How are you"?

[Bailey39]

(neeshma) נשמע = sounds / sounded / sound => What is heard? = How have things been?

(shalomcha /shlomkhá ) שלומך = related to peace => How is your peace? = How are you feeling?

[Marilyn485714]

I believe that both have been translated by Duolingo as "How are you?", but I now understand the difference. Thank you. Could the English equivalent of ma neeshma, then, be similar to "what's new?"

[benton.1]

"What's new" is also used. It is "מה חדש?"

[Rethse75]

How would it be pronounced? I know the first part is "mah", but I don't know the second part of the sentence. Is it Chadash? o Chadesh?

[danny912421]

Mah chadásh

[Bailey39]

Yes. I've seen that, either in the official tips, or in someone else's comment.

[josedopatrocinio]

Thanks

[chicobanano]

And when is it used?

[Pumbush]

Ma shlomchem is used when asking a plural you" how are they.

[chicobanano]

תודה

[rhotemple]

what about מה נישמה?

[Lioz70]

מה נשמע = how are uou
נשמה = soul

[Momo_the_Avenger]

I tried and it was marked wrong.

[Heysoos1]

How else can we say this?
Mah shlom(ekh/kha),
Mah qoreh...

[Pumbush]

מה המצב? מה העניינים? מה נשמע?

[josedopatrocinio]

Thanks

[HenrikKiba1]

To mix things up a bit I used "מה נישמה " which Duolingo taught and allowed before. I know it is more like "What's new?" but now duo says I "used the wrong word." I know that " מה שלומך" is also correct, and duo has also even taught " קורה מה " But weird to be punished for using their own instruction.

[danny912421]

From what I know, every "How are you?" sentence in this skill allows all three options: מה שלומך and מה קורה (not קורה מה), and מה נשמע. But the problem with what you wrote is that you did use a wrong word - a non-existing word, to be precise. It's מה נשמע not נישמה.

[isomerorig]

Please transliterate this for me

[yaacov2]

Ma shlomkha

[kutjul]

I wrote איך אתה...was not accepted. It's not idiomatic, but its still correct

[ShimonJaco]

Same happened to me. איך אתה is perfectly acceptable to say

[CarolKnoll1]

I don't have a Hebrew keyboard

[danny912421]

Well, you can download the Hebrew keyboard or use a virtual one.

[CAROLINE125914]

I do not have a hebrew character computer

[danny912421]

You don't need a Hebrew character computer. A Hebrew keyboard is enough - which you can download easily.

[eddiannie]

@danny912421 You were very patient in fielding pretty much the same question one after another. Just to say that it doesn't go unnoticed. :)

[L_Kr]

3 different answers were offered up for this one on the hover. I typed the first of the answers… and it was wrong! Not misspelled such that the system didn't recognize it, just completely wrong.

[Joseph3644]

Could "מה קורה" also work?

[danny912421]

Yes. As far as I am aware, מה שלומך, מה קורה and מה נשמע are all accepted in the sentences with this question. They do have nuanced differences between them, but the basic meaning is the pretty much the same - you ask the person how they are.

[Larry731494]

there was no indication asking for plural!

[danny912421]

It's not plural. מה שלומך is singular.

[TAD308940]

Why is מה קינה wrong?

[danny912421]

What you wrote doesn't really make sense. What were you trying to write?

[TAD308940]

I make notes as I go, and have this listed as 1 form of "How are you?" Maybe I mistook something.

[danny912421]

The closest thing to "how are you" is מה קורה /ma kore/, which I assume is what you encountered.