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"I only love whoever gives me candies."
Translation:אני אוהבת רק את מי שנותן לי ממתקים.
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I entered אני רק אוהב and was marked wrong, but I think I've heard that word order used before. Is it only allowed in certain situations?
It can be used to refer to the verb -
zz אני רק מחבק את מי שנותן לי ממתקים - I only hug whomever gives me candy, I don't do anything else to him
zz אני מחבק רק את מי שנותן לי ממתקים - I hug only those who give me candy, and no one else
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This explanation of word placement makes sense, but by this logic shouldn't the "...אני רק אוהב" word order be the only accepted correct translation for the english statement which starts "I only love ..."? Perhaps the problem is that the english statement is ambiguous which makes it hard to translate into one of two less-ambiguous hebrew options? I can totally see how starting the sentence with "I love only ..." would make it clear that we should translate to "...אני אוהב רק"
I think that both should be accepted. "ממתק" might be a more general word than "סוכריה".
I would say that any item that is just flavored sugar in a hard candy or powdered form would be סוכרייה. But if it is a candy that has other ingredients (nuts, fruit, chocolate ect.) that are highly sweetened - then it would be ממתקים . that makes sense to me.
Because it's not accurate. סוכרייה is more specific than candy: it's generally made from sugar plus milk or water, and it's usually solid, round and rather small. Things like marshmallow, chocolate and cotton candy are not considered סוכריות.
I suggest looking at the category "ממתקים" in Wikipedia and its subcategory סוכריות to see the difference.
So what we'd call candy (but usually by their individual type - lollipop, gummy bears or brand - mike 'n' ike, werther's names vs candy that includes snickers?
What do you call things where you're not sure? Like twizzlers are probably סוכרייה ? Or salt water taffy, those chewy caramels or tootsie rolls? Cotton candy? If you don't know can you just call them all ממתק ? Thanks.
I'll go one by one what I'd consider סוכרייה and what not: lollipop is literally called סוכרייה על מקל, so yes; mike n ike - yes; werther's - yes; snickers - no; twizzlers - no; salt water taffy - yes; chewy caramels - probably; tootsie rolls - probably; cotton candy - no.
(Some of them I didn't know, I just gave my opinion based on Google images)
Yeah, you can use ממתקים for all of these. As I said, סוכרייה is just more specific.
No, it's incorrect. לי should be placed right after the verb, and similarly, any time there's a pronominal suffix, like להם, לך, לנו etc.
If it was "to [a noun]", (e.g. לאבא, לאמא) you could've placed it after ממתקים as well.
Carole, so you can learn how it's written differently depending on the gender. You'll see some sentences also use plural forms of you and they (and the different gender, plural forms).
I entered אני אוהב את רק מי שנותן לי ממתקים and it was marked wrong. I thought רק could go pretty much anywhere.
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No, it can't just go anywhere. In this sentence I counted only three possible places where רק can be placed, but each position changes the meaning a bit. But you put it in one place it absolutely can never go - between את and the direct object - מי in this case.
