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- "אתה אוכל סלט עגבניות."
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It sounds like salahtgvinot. Usually I can hear the separate words, is this just me? Is the first time I couldn't hear the separation. And I speak insanely fast. Like my dad still can't understand me & I've been speaking for decades.
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I clearly hear him say saLAT agvaniOT. I don't see a date on these posts, so you may have done this one very early in your work with Duolingo Hebrew. Either that or they revised the audio.
Hebrew doesn’t have cases but I can sort of see where you are coming from.
Hebrew has smikhut compounds consisting of a nismakh and a somekh. Somekh is the second word, so עגבניות here is the somekh. The second word never changes form in smikhut, so you can’t really call it a case. However, it does have the sense “of tomatoes”, so it is vaguely similar to the genitive.