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- "הם לא נוגעים בצלחות."
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Is there a logic to ב in this context, or is it just one of those "Hebrew is different from English, get used to it" things? I know ב as essentially meaning "in", which is really weird for me in this context. Does it have a secondary meaning or is it just a case of being used differently?
Yes, sometimes prepositions don't match up across languages. In Hebrew you touch "in" something.
I think it's one of those "Hebrew is different from English, get used to it" things, especially because it's a preposition, and prepositions usually change a lot between languages, but I'm not sure.
It's one of these cases; but note that the preposition ב has another major meaning other than "in", and that is the meaning of an instrument or means by which the subject does the action - in English it's usually "with". So "She hit him with a bat" - "היא הכתה אותו במחבט". Or "he saw it with his own eyes" - "הוא ראה את זה במו עיניו". (Sadly, in spoken Hebrew this usage os ב lost a lot of ground to עם - people will more likely say "היא הכתה אותו עם מחבט" - but purists consider עם wrong here, and I wouldn't expect it in literature or a newspaper.)
Here "plates" is not an instrument or a means, but maybe it's a bit closer to a means than to a physical or temporal location (the "in" meaning of ב).
I would like to understand your post, but I don't know how to read "She hit him with a bat" in Hebrew yet. הכתה is "hit"? במחבט is bat with beit as a prefix?
The audio is too fast. It makes it very difficult to hear the sentence.
It’s correct, there is supposed to be a glottal stop between the g and the i sound.
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This voice talent seems to be following the female voice talent. Speed, speed, speed....
This task is appearing a lot of times in one sessions, is this normal?
