"היא ראתה מטאור וביקשה משאלה."

Translation: She saw a meteor and asked for a wish.

[weitzhandler]

The question should have been היא ראתה מטאור והביעה משאלה.

[AlmogL]

To me the English version sounds funny too. They both seem to mean that she asked someone to hand over a wish, so maybe it's fine. :-) Do you "ask for a wish" in English? Don't you "make a wish"?

[AdamReisman]

Correct. We don't ask for wishes. We make wishes. The english is unnatural.

[weitzhandler]

In Hebrew the proper way to say making a wish is to say expressing a wish.

[flootzavut]

We do make a wish. As of today, that translation is accepted, though it should probably be the primary one.

[Hava_Dorit]

כן!!!

[mgrdAT]

i think this is the usual way to write a pi'el word with 3 root consonants when not using niqud. הוא ביקש, היא ביקשה.

[Hadassah277241]

You don't ask for a wish when you see a meteor, aka a shooting star, you make a wish...

[xerostomus]

what is the word wish?: שאלה משאל משאלה or שאל? what are the suffix and prefix מ-שאל-ה?

[YehudaBenAdam]

Babylon gives: משאל – nm. poll, referendum; question, desire, wish; מִשְׁאָלָה – nf. desire, wish, request; שאלה – nf. question, query, interrogatory; problem; request

[Steven768876]

Why is there a "י" in ביקשה?