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In earlier examples דוב was pronounced as "dov", but דובים is now "dubim". Is there a rule for this, or this is just the way this particular word behaves? Thank you!
Hi, I understand that my question will be slightly out-of-date but did you actually find some rule that regulates this vowel change?
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Sorry, no. :( The sound of the language just seems more natural this way (probably my ear is more accustomed to hebrew now), but I did not figure out a rule. I am sure there is one, maybe a language expert could help.
There is, but it does not help much. There are words whose two last consonants are the same, like רבב (many) when no suffix follows, the last consonant disappears (רב), and in this case the sound in "v". But when a suffix follows (ים) both consonants ar kept (though you keep writing only one), and it is pronounced rabbim.
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Hello, coming late to your party of bears learning Ivrit. Why dov --> Dubim? Because you can't end a word with 'b'. The 'b' looses its dot and becomes a 'v'.
I am a motherlanguage speaker of german & I dont understand what you mean...
Está es la primera vez que leo que"oso" es una forma de llamar a un homosexual. Y me refiero en España y América Latina. Es tut mir leid, aber das habe ich in Deutschland noch nie gehört.
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Pienso que es un typo de homosexual que es muy grande con muchas pellos en el cuerpo. Hay muchas categorías, por ejemplo, "clone", "straight acting". La única palabra que he oído en América Latina es "maricon" y no me gusta esta palabra por que es tan derogatoria.
As a native Hebrew speaker who is VERY familiar with the gay culture in and outside of Israel, I've never heard someone says "bears" in the meaning of gays.
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Not recent. It is very common in the American West. I live in Southern California--up in the hills where bears are plentiful. Whenever I tell someone that bears got into my garbage or beehive or something I often get a humerous response about the apparent ambiguity of the statement. BTW (gay) bears are generally large gay hairy men with a preference for leather. Don't quote me though--not gay--could be nuances I don't know about.
There’s a joke about a guy running away from a bear in a forest, running and running and running until he hits a dead end. So, with his end in sight, he quickly starts praying:
’…שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ‘
Then suddenly he notices the bear has stopped and started praying:
’…בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ‘
The guy is ecstatic. Look at that, of all the bears that could have chased me, this one is Jewish! Thank you, G–d!
Then he hears the bear finishing his prayer:
I loved duolingo but I am getting a bit perturbed with these useless sentences. Why not provide us with potentially real sentences, as this is not as effective as it could be. "All these immigrants are learning Hebrew" So much more practical and real and useful
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I wouldn't say useless. These sentences, funny at times, help remember the vocabulary better, but more importantly help us understand the mechanics of the language. So, in a few more skills you'll learn that an immigrant is עולה, so by then you'll be able to know to say that sentence: כל העולים האלה לומדים עברית.
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The sentences are entertaining. I want a set of wooden bears reading hebrew... bonus points if they are posed like an ulpan.
Would it be wrong to say ...כל הדובים האלו as opposed to האלה? What is the difference of the two?
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Both האלה and האלו mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably. האלו is supposedly more formal.
