"אתם קונים את זה?"

Translation: Are you buying this?

[deactivated user]

Does this sentence also mean 'Do you believe it?', as it does in English?

[Pumbush]

Yes kind of, in slang

[mynaymisjonas]

So what are the root letters of "קונים", bit confused with this one...

[Pumbush]

ק.נ.ה

[TJWphd]

Fun thing I have realized - that long vowel ו in the second position is almost never a root letter, and almost always indicates you’re looking at the verb version of the word.

[jkhoruts]

How would one ask, "are you buying these"?

[Zdeka985336]

אתם קונים האלה?

[Jewpsy]

You should always use ״את״ before a direct object

[rich739183]

... before a definite direct object.

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[Eri_Martis]

is "these" not a definite direct object?

[rich739183]

Thanks for re-focusing my perspective; now I wonder that, too. I had been thinking of the difference between that sentence and, say:
"?אתם קונים את הספרים האלה"

I think I recall some sentence discussions that seemed to be inconsistent regarding the use of את before some determiners used as direct objects. I got the impression that "את זה" is standard, but with others, such as האלה, we let the context indicate whether the objects are definite. Yet in one sentence I think we were told to use את because the indicated but unidentified objects were understood to be definite, while in another sentence we were told not to use את because they were unidentified.

My recall may be faulty, so I hope an expert will çlarify this.

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[Jewpsy]

אתם קונים את אלה?

[Jaime586348]

Why את זה?

[rich739183]

"This" is something definite and is the direct object of the verb, so we need את before זה.

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