"זה טוב."
Translation:This is good.
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Is there any difference in pronunciation of these three letters ט ת צ or they all sound like T?
But, isn't it true that words that are spelled using ט are borrowed words from another language? I thought that the ת was pronounced with a gutteral th and native hebrew words.
Please correct if that is incorrect.
ODessa, loan words from other languages which use the t sound usually use ט, but mispat משפט “justice” for example is a biblical word, as are other words which have ט in them.
As for the pronunciation of ת, I was taught that it was pronounced in biblical times as “th”, which makes sense to me when I consider בית-לחם Bethlehem meaning “house of bread” (2 Sam. 23:15) or names such as נתן Nathan etc.
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Is it also possible to say "This is alright" or "This is ok"? Or is "good" the only possible answer in this context?
I think "This is ok" or "This is alright" would be זה בסדר, whereas טוב means "good".
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Intonation might imply nuances to the meaning, but generally the use is like GrassTiger wrote.
The letter ט used to be pronounced like a pharyngealized t sound, like in Arabic, but the destinction has been mostly lost.
Second sentence in a row that appears twice in a row, but without an exclamation mark (the other being הָאֹכֶל טָעִים).
This is a general question concerning letters resp. vowels: Why have words like כַּוָּנָה [kavana] ‘intention’ or כִּוּוּן [kivun] ‘direction’ a (first) Vav with a dot? Is that meant to be a Dagesh rather than a Shuruk? That would mean that someone who meets these words for the first time has to guess whether they are spelt Kauana or Kavana resp. Kiu'un or Kivun or Kiuvn?
In the first word it is a dagesh, in the second it is a dagesh in the first vav, and then a shuruk.
How can you tell? I believe shuruk can't come immediately after another vowel, so the preceding patach and chirik tell you it has to be a vav with dagesh. Then in כִּוּוּן the second one has to be a shuruk, because... a second vav with dagesh doesn't make sense in many ways.
Why is it saying the correct translation is “that is good” when it was previously telling me the whole time it meant “this is good”?
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If you read the comments, you will find that the answer to your question has already been given. It does mean both "this" and "that". Maybe there was something else wrong with your sentence.
Oh ok. Well I was just wondering because it counted mine as incorrect... Another comment says that זה can mean both “this” and “that”
Should I always pronounce טוב as [tov] or is it acceptable to say [tof] instead?
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Whenever the word זה comes up, a man's voice says it aloud. Just that word. Is anyone else hearing this? It's a bit creepy.
Brace yourself; he creeps up in three or four other words as well but you’ll be glad to hear him later on when he re-records an entire sentence which did not match the text.
Why is there a recording of someone saying, זה, only and no other words throughout these lessons?
While "this is" and "it is" are sometimes equivalent, they are not in hebrew. זה is demonstrative.
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"Good" is an adjective, "well" is a adverb. He is a good man, he does well. This is good.