"Who lives on that street?"
Translation:מי גר ברחוב הזה?
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Well, it would be dangerous with the traffic, if you lived עַל הָרְחוֹב. Like רָאִ֫יתִּי אֶת הַבַּחוּר הַזֶּה שׁוֹכֵב עַל הָרְחוֹב שָׁם I see this fellow lying on the street there.
The word זה can mean this or that and is enough for beginners. But I have added ההוא as an alternative.
Neither actually.
Bar(e)khov, because it’s definite. The e is in brackets because it can be very short/non-existent in everyday speech.
It would be birkhov if it were indefinite. E.g. ברחוב אחר on a different street birkhov akher.
thanks! so this means that the ב here (i.e. followed by רחוב) never has a be sound?
This is the first time I’ve seen a fill-in-the-blank exercise with a text entry field. Not sure if it’s a new addition, or if they’ve suddenly replaced the “select the missing word” exercises. Either way, it seems like a useful addition.
Once again, though, there are problems with the right-to-left text. Not as bad as it has often been, but this sentence was displayed with the question mark at the right, i.e.
מי גר _ הזה?
when it should be
מי גר _ הזה?
Once again, note to programmers: Unicode is your friend. Inserting a U+200F character is only one of several ways to make sure your punctuation lives in an RTL environment.
Well, you can use מִי with a feminine verb form, if you already know the person you are asking for is a woman. When you are in a student hostel exclusively for women and see a door to a dormitory, you may ask מִי גָּרָה שָׁם who (implying which woman) lives there?, because you can suppose it is a woman.
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The hints for "who lives" give אשר גר although that was marked wrong.
What does that mean?
Well, אֲשֶׁר is the relative particle. It can not ask questions but is the who that means the person that.
