"כשאת שותָה קפה את לא ישנה."

Translation: When you drink coffee you don't sleep.

[zion11dotcom]

cshe-at shotah kafeh at lo yeshenah

[zion11dotcom]

audio for כשאת: https://forvo.com/search/כשאת/

[Yui394818]

Wow this link is good תודה

[Knoxienne]

But that's what Duo is for! :)

[SarahBerry17]

Is this pronounced kshe-at?

[Havah1962]

Yes

[Philomelow]

is the second person singular used to express a general truth ? As in english ?

[arijun]

I think the equivalent of the generic you is the impersonal plural "כשאת שותים קפה לא ישנים"

[jayantshaq]

Is
כשאת
really impersonal? Does it not have the personal
את
in it? Should the impersonal plural rather be
כש שותים קפה לא ישנים
?

[IngeborgHa14]

Well, not grammatically, but as regards content: You have to work very hard to make a dollar these days or The only place you can get great pizza is in Houghton does not adress you personally, but a general person, a John Doe. The usual way to express this in Standard Hebrew is indeed the impersonal plural, but quite informally, as Yarden mentioned, the English model to express it is possible in Hebrew too.

[jayantshaq]

I was wondering about the correct way of constructing the impersonal in this case. My understanding (guess) is that the proper way is the impersonal plural,
כש שותים קפה לא ישנים
, while an informal way is
כשאת שותָה קפה את לא ישנה
, (and I suppose
כשאתה שותה קפה אתה לא ישנ
), and that
כשאת שותים קפה לא ישנים
is neither. Is that correct?

[danny912421]

A correction. It's כששותים. Also, it's אתה לא ישן (you forgot the nun sofit). As for your last example, it's incorrect, because you can't combine את with שותים. Or was it a typo?

[IngeborgHa14]

Also, as described in this article, "אַתָּה evidently expresses a relatively interactive orientation, even when uses gererically". So while כְּשֶׁשּׁוֹתִים… sounds more like an scientific fact, כְּשֶׁאַתָּה שׁוֹתֶה… sounds more like an incentive to reduce coffee consumption.

[Philomelow]

that's what I thought too, but I believed that I read somewhere that it was possible with the second person singurlar as well.. I can't remember what lesson it was

[YardenNB]

Second person singular can be used for impersonal, but only in very informal speaking.

[pollitotitorojo]

No one sleeps and drinks. So, when you drink tea, you don't sleep either

[danny912421]

As it has already been pointed out, this "when" is in the sense of "if" - "if you drink coffee, you don't sleep", not "while, during". Of course you can't drink and sleep at the same time.