"אתה בא איתי?"

Translation:Are you coming with me?

July 22, 2016

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/HTIKVA

do you come with me? really, bad english. Propper translation should be are you coming with me? Please fix it!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Aerologia

Well, not really a bad English. Just daily use makes the sentence sound a little bit awkward. Grammar-wise, it is correct.

(Consider the act as routine instead of near-future: do you (always) come with me before I lost my memory?)


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AdamRobC

No, as a native english speaker it is bad english. "Are you coming with me?" Is the correct translation.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/DevinCoats2

Or maybe "Would you come/go with me?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/danny912421

I don't think so. That would be תבוא איתי? or maybe even תוכל לבוא איתי? And also no on "go". בא is "come".


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/yochris1

We would normally say 'Are you coming with me?'


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Stethoskop

What about "You are coming with me?" (it was rejected - e.g.: "You are coming with me? I thought you were going with him!"). In general, if this is "Are you coming with me?": does "העם אתה בא איתי?" exist and if so, what would be the difference?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/radagastthebrown

It should also be accepted. האם אתה בא איתי means practically the same, it's more formal and it also makes it absolutely sure the sentence is understood as a question regardless of your intonation.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/psheri

"do u come with me" is not english


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/VforBBforV

Actually, it is under certain circumstances, which I shall leave to the imagination of those whose minds frequent the gutter. :-p


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/MeTzvi

I translated the sentence, ?אתה בא איתי, as "Will you come with me?". The correct answer, per the program, is "Do you come with me?". Why is my answer incorrect?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/radagastthebrown

You used the future tense, while the Hebrew sentence was present.

Will you come with me? = ?תבוא איתי

Are you coming with me?/Do you come with me? = ?אתה בא איתי


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/MeTzvi

Thank you! I appreciate your help.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/DianeKohn

Except those were not the words to choose from.

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