"מה אתה משיג?"
Translation:What do you achieve?
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Well, מָה אַתָּה מַשִּׂיג בַּזֶּה what do you get out of it sounds like a critical question, when you do not understand the purpose of someone's behaviour.
Learning Hebrew too. In English I can only imagine it as a response to something like: I'm going to complain to them in Esperanto.
What do you achieve (by doing that)? But a native would have to respond to be sure..
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It's incorrect, because משיג means "achieve, obtain" and מקבל means "receive". There is a big difference between them. When you achieve something, you work to get it, while you receive something, you are more passive.
So in the previous example "החתול משיג אוכל כל בוקר", the cat actively works to obtain the food?
Thanks Danny. Yes that makes sense and I see the clear difference between them. What confuses me however is that on other sentences, it puts "to get" or "getting" as acceptable translations of משיג which seems confusing as to get is essentially more similar to "receiving" than "acheiving"
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Yes, I agree. It can get confusing when meanings overlap. But it is also true that "get" can be a translation of both משיג and מקבל.
When I first heard this, I thought the translation would be, "What are you getting?" For example, what do you intend to order at a restaurant? Would that be a typical use case?
I understand it as what is in it for you, what do you gain, i.e. asking for someone's benefits or advantages reaped by their actions.