"הברווזים לא רוצים לאכול."
Translation:The ducks do not want to eat.
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Often your app. translates בדווז as drake, so בדווזים הם לא בדווזות, so why using "drakes" is wrong?
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i agree this was very frustating i also used drakes for ברווזים but it said i got it wrong and shouldve used ducks like what?!
1258
What happened to the 'ו' of okhel? It moved. Does the adding of 'ל' always change the verb form like this?
The ducks are eating. - הברווזים אוכלים
1258
I am stuck now with your language. :) Too late to get off the train whatever grammar complications you might have in store for us. Thanks for all your wonderful help. This course is really great.
1258
I am German. But yes, you are right. I understand quite a few things from the Arabic angle.
Binyan means the construct of a word. It is a fixed template, and that template differs with tenses, differs with the meaning of the words/verbs.
Exp: the template פעלתי fa3alti is i+verb in the past regardless of the verb
Or the template פעל (fe3el to do) and the template מפועל (mefo3el to be done) like דיבר deber to speak and מדובר medober spoken. Or בישל bechal to cook and מבושל meboshal cooked.
It is like a rhyme you have to memorise, every rhyme means a thing. I think בנין benyan(construct) also called משקל meshqal(rhyme)
1262
You have a number of mistakes in your transliterations.
פעלתי - pa'alti
It's not really true that this is the template for 1st person past tense. Each binyan acts differently.
פעל - pa'al
מפועל - mefo'al
דיבר - diber
מדובר - medubar
בישל - bishel
מבושל - mevushal
בניין - binyan
משקל - mishkal
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Very interesting. Have already noticed these similarities. Fascinated by the possibility Europe was once inhabited by Afroasiatics. I believe there is anthropological evidence for this during the late ice age, approx 12,000 years ago.
1262
When you have "don't have" it's אין, when it's "don't ... " - anything else - it's לא.
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Whatever the gender is, in most cases you always say "duck". The word drake is not used commonly. It is used only when you really want to specify that you are talking about a male duck. But even then, in 99% cases, people would rather say "male duck" and not "drake". In this sentence, the gender plays no role, so the default "duck" would be the first choice for virtually everyone.