"יש לכם כלב טוב."
Translation:You have a good dog.
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One person לך
More than one person לכם
It's like you versus yous/y'all/you lot/you guys depending on your dialect of English.
how can you distinguish when talking whether someone is saying להם or לכם? they sound the same and it made me get this question wrong...
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Try comparing them, listening to each one repeatedly. Have them in adjacent tabs in your browser, so you can switch back and forth.
Here are some sentences with להם.
https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Hebrew/%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%9D/356bbf5e3c36b214f3982188ab4fe135
Here are some sentences with לכם.
https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Hebrew/%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9D/5b3b0abb42752f764baf3a8ddf947aab
Also try listening to different voices.
Here is להם.
https://forvo.com/word/יש_להם/#he
Here is לכם.
https://forvo.com/word/יש_לכם/#he
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No, read all the notes again and use the scroll over hints if you're unsure.
"They have" is יש להם
Is this a corret form of "They" -- feminine and masculine : יש להן or י ש להם Obliged if somebody could explain. Thanks
Is there a reason why "you" (אתה/את) is not used with the -ל prefix? Basically, why is it "לכם/לכן" instead of "לאת/לאתה"? Is לכם/לכן plural?
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You probably should read the note on this, as I'm not a native speaker... AFAIU, "יש" means 'There is' and so the -ל words are there to refer to who the thing belongs to. So - יש לי תפוח ... Is translated as "I have an apple" ... but it literally means "There is to me an apple." The "לי" is the 'to me' part.
To answer your question, את and אתה just aren't appropriate when talking about owning a thing. You need the appropriate -ל words and a יש ('there is') or אין, which is ('there isn't a)
You have a dog (יש לכן כלב) You have a good Dog (יש לכם כלב טוב) Why לכן changes to לכם?
Not the same:
They have יש להם yesh lahem
You have יש לכם yesh lakhem
According to the audio, I wrote, "יש להם" fully expecting the translation to be, they have. It said my answer was correct, which it was not. Many of these words are so close to each other, the only way to really tell the difference is in the written form. The difference is so subtle, and the mistake changes so much. It is frustrating sometimes.
You said לכם is "you all (plural)".
The translation specifically says "You" have a good dog....
So why is לך not used?
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Does it work in Hebrew if you reverse the order of the first two words? יש לכם There is to you לכם יש To you there is In English these are certainly equally valid ways of expressing the same concept.
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Yes, I've read that that changes the emphasis from יש לכם "you have", to לכם יש "you have". I wonder if it might also be used for style, as in poetry.
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Why does "כלב" sound like [k'elev]? (I perceived כ as an ejective consonant.)
I did it right, but clicked too fast on the 'check', before the whole sentence was exposed...