"אנחנו מדברים ומדברים והם לא עושים כלום!"
Translation:We talk and talk and they do nothing!
June 23, 2016
5 Comments
Just a nitpick, but כלום does not mean nothing. It means "an extremely small amount". But most people don't know that.
June 23, 2016
Ynhockey
1972
It actually means 'something' according to this article: http://hebrew-academy.org.il/2012/08/08/כלום-ושום-דבר/
August 30, 2016
AlmogL
- 13
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.
June 23, 2016
DrakeHyman
- 820
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.
November 11, 2017
