"You have a book."

Translation: יש לך ספר.

[Theresa754142]

Yesh lekha sefer if a male has a book or

Yesh lakh sefer if a female has a book.

[Psalm_23]

The "Mark all the correct translations" exercise has three choices that differ only in the vowel points, but it's accepting only two of them. Is the other one (the one with two dots) also correct? (It was the answer to another "You have" sentence, but I am a complete beginner and could be missing something!) Thanks!

[misterram]

You are probably talking about Nikud. In Hebrew there are many words that are written the same but have different Nikud (the vowel points). Nikud is used sometimes to indicate male/female, so:

לְךָ - Masc

לָךְ - Fem

So basically one sentence was referring to a male and the other to a female.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%9A

[Heysoos1]

In other words, mark all of them they're all correct with different contexts.

[mxchana]

I marked both the masculine and feminine forms correct and was marked wrong - only one was given for the correct answer. I reported it.

[Ana_Leia]

It is still doing that three months later. I looked at the thread here to see if maybe I had completely mixed up something I thought I knew. But it is saying I am wrong for marking both the masculine and feminine forms of לך. (I haven’t figured out how to type the vowel spots).

[ZacharyCol388931]

Still doing it two years later mods please fix this

[eliya.joy]

Maybe this was a mistake that has been corrected. The third sentence I have now is different from the other two: לילד יש ספר, as opposed to לך. So that is not a correct translation.

[Heysoos1]

לילד? למה לילד?
Looks like a glitch. "The boy has a book."

[Psalm_23]

It must have changed. Either that or I really wasn't looking carefully! Thank you!

[Mosalf]

I think it changed

[Shosho960354]

Isn't לכן mean you also? That should be right?

[gregory92150]

When there are multiple choice questions, too often the right answers are evident because there is only a different pronoun. So you can just guess when 2 answers are almost the same that they are the right answer.
You should mix things up more.

[Shosho960354]

לכן means you also

[tu.8zPhLySD9eGoy]

So...when it's a question we only add the question mark (and the intonation) ? No change in anything within the phrase?

[Nadjapro]

How wold you translate Lech Lanu sefer?

[Mosalf]

jesh lanu sefer?

[Nadjapro]

No, the exercise had lech lanu sefer as one of the options. It's just a sentence without meaning to practice right?

[Mosalf]

we have a book יש לנו ספר

[Nadjapro]

Oh, Now I'm no longe sure. Sorry

[arenam]

Can't the noun and possessive pronoun commute in Hebrew, making yeah sefer lach/l'cha a valid answer as well?

[AnnewithnE]

Is it in correct to add the pronoun "you" in front of the sentence?

[NatanBC]

What is the difference between יש לך and יש לה?

[Theresa754142]

‏יש לך
‏can be yesh lekha, you have
masculine singular, or yesh lakh, you have feminine singular, depending on the niqqud.

Yesh la is She has

[Larry731494]

using nikodot should not make the answer incorrect!

[danny912421]

This message appears in the introductory post of the Hebrew forum:

Very important! Never use nikkud when writing answers in Hebrew, the nikkud only appears when you need to translate a Hebrew sentence into English.

source: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16251269

The reason is that the system doesn't recognize nikud properly makes a correct answer incorrect.

[Larry731494]

thank you, now i understand