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- "The boy does not see a way."
"The boy does not see a way."
Translation:הילד לא רואה דרך.
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It frustrates me how the app doesn't let me hear the pronunciation after a written answer. Thank you for this
726
The word עני means "poor" as in without money. What you probably meant to say is מסכן miskén to mean poor, in the sense of being pitied.
In the answers it has both the feminine and masculine verbs accepted?
הילד לא רואה דרך., הילד לא רואֶה דרך.
I don't understand this.
Here, רואה can be either masculine (roe) or feminine (roa). The spelling is the same. The dots on רואֶה indicates that it is the masculine form. But these dots are not usually used, so the gender of רואה can only be determined from context.
The word bank offers the choice of רואה without niqqud (which can be either masculine or feminine), and the masculine form רואֶה, and the feminine form רואָה. If you found that it accepted the feminine form as correct, then you ought to report it as an error. When I tried that, it did NOT say that I was correct, it told me that I had a typo.
The spelling with niqud is לֹא. Hopefully you can see the dot above and between the lamed and the aleph. That's what makes the "o" sound.
I am confused why Duolingo introduces brand new words and does not read them to you so brand new speakers like me can hear them. Like "way".
I was taught that דרך meant 'path' growing up (jewish:so probably old hebrew) but it just drives me insane that its translated to 'way' here.
- 726
Well דרך can mean a physical path you walk on, a route, a road and it can mean a metaphorical road - a way. There's no need to go insane because of a correct translation.
What do you mean by 'niqqud'? ... Also what are the proper names for the two different vowel points on roeh? Oh, after 20 years I have forgotten sooo much.
Niqqud is system of diacritics signs representing vowels, mainly used in Biblical Hebrew and typically not used in modern Hebrew. The three dots sign is called segol, the 2nd one is called kamatz.
i have a windows 10 touch screen. i can't continue in my hebrew lessons without a hebrew keyboard. what do i do?
- 285
Is this literally about not seeing a way/road or methaphorical about not seeing a solution out of a problematic situation?
- 726
אלה משפטים שונים:
הילד לא רואה דרך - The boy doesn't see a way
הילד לא רואה את הדרך - The boy doesn't see the way
Does anyone else type letters that then disappear so you get dinged for a wrong answer?!
- 381
You have a typo.
הילד לא רואה דרך
I wrote "הילד לא רואה דרך". The answer was accepted, but Duo told me I had a typo. In Duo's proposed answer the "רואה" was underlined, but apart from that the sentence looked exactly the same. Does Duo expect me to use niqqud and write "אֶ"?
- 726
No, you are not supposed to use nikud. Ever since the beginning of the course, there has been a problem with the system recognizing nikud. It's just a glitch.
