"הציפורים מדברות."
Translation:The birds speak.
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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
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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.
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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.