"הציפורים מדברות."

Translation: The birds speak.

[Hymie.Eisman]

Shouldn't it be הציפורים מדברים ?

[nirc2]

Tsipor is a femine word.
the plural of tsipur is tsiporim, which is an exemption

[Dmitry_Arch]

An exception. What are other exceptions of this kind?

[Pumbush]

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16411558

[Pumbush]

ציפורים
is feminine

[dieprinzessin]

Are we talking about parrots or could that be 'singing' as well ?

[Pumbush]

Parrots = תוכים = Tukim

Medabrot can't mean singing, only talking.

Singing = שרות

[yonatan1301]

you could also use מצייצות = tweeting (pronounced metzaytzot)

[GamalNemeri]

Tuki (תוכי) is a Tamil word (Tokai) that was imported into the Hebrew lexicon a long time ago, so only for the sake of of being consistent with birds which have a modern convention (that a Tzipor/Tsipor (Ṣipor more correctly) (ציפור) is feminine) of having a noun that has an irregular pluralisation (think for example Shaneem Rabot VeNe`eemot שנים רבות ונעימות), that tuki/tukeem takes this on

[dieprinzessin]

תודה

[danny912421]

ha-tziporím medabrót.

[DalMaegil]

That was the most silent resh I've heard so far.

[SeSamm]

That was exactly my reason to go to the comments
Should it be that silent?

[danny912421]

I can clearly hear both of them, so you just need to get used to the sound of it. I recommend using headphones for the audio questions. It helped me a lot in the beginning.

[TheOneAndOnlyBK]

Time for more evolution jokes... :P

[loveJesusb1]

Atheistmovie.com :D

[zsuuv]

What

[KeesVisser1]

https://youtu.be/dYMgj3oVcmU

[gsazbon]

The talking birds will be הציפורים המדברות, no?

[.81ep]

Why must מדברות? and can we only use דבר?

[danny912421]

No, you can't use only דבר because that would not make sense. You need to conjugate the verb to match the gender and the number of the noun - in this instance it is feminine plural, because ציפורים is a feminine plural word. Therefore, it is הציפורים מדברות. If it were one bird speaking you would say הציפור מדברת.