"אנחנו מדברים ומדברים והם לא עושים כלום!"

Translation: We talk and talk and they do nothing!

[Yitzhakofeir]

Just a nitpick, but כלום does not mean nothing. It means "an extremely small amount". But most people don't know that.

[AlmogL]

True, so לא עושים כלום is not actually a double negative. But in spoken language כלום is used as "nothing", for instance: what are you doing? כלום.

[RedViperMartell]

So it's a synonym for "bubkis?"

[Ynhockey]

It actually means 'something' according to this article: http://hebrew-academy.org.il/2012/08/08/כלום-ושום-דבר/

[DrakeHyman]

I was taught in biblical hebrew that prefix vav can also act as the "but" conjunction, not just "and". Would this apply to modern hebrew too? Seems a bitter translation here to me.

[YardenNB]

I wouldn't say that vav can be "but" any more than the English "and" can. I think that in both languages, people would often use the simple conjunction "and" in contexts of "but", just with clarifying intonation.

[Mabel544786]

I like the tonation of the audio on this sentence☺

[kreaqnhp]

Is “don't do anything” correct?

[danny912421]

Yes. You can report it.