"My banana is tasty!"
Translation:הבננה שלי טעימה!
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You use טעים when the noun is masculine and טעימה when it's femenine, in this case, בננה is femenine, so you use טעימה
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In most cases, the rule is that when a word ends in either ה or ת, the word will be feminine. If it ends in any other letter, it will be masculine. BUT, there are also exceptions to this rule. With those words, the only way to know is by memorizing them. There is a post here on Duolingo called "misleading genders of Hebrew words" which lists those exceptions:
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36423456
From Modern Hebrew grammar book by Lewis Glinert: ה, ‘the’ is added to the first noun, because ‘my dog’ means ‘the dog of mine’.
It's the grammar rule, I know someone explained it in another question the linguistic details of it, but it's really saying... The banana of me.
If you're a guy , taim you'd use it for I, & male singular you, taima. I spoken by a female, and female singular you.
This is all in the tips and notes.
"adjective is a word which describes a noun. In Hebrew, the adjective follows the noun it describes and agrees with it in gender and number."
Oh the Lamed is in there but The shin is first but can't remember what that's representing.. my memory ..yikes!!
Read the tips and notes. It will help you a lot.
how to get tips and notes: (I use the PDF and Duome).
organized by skill in one pdf for the whole course: https://www.docdroid.net/JnfmyEV/tipsnotesbackup.pdf or online at https://duome.eu/tips/en/he
Replace your username where USERNAME is for information on your progress & the tips & notes: https://duome.eu/USERNAME/progress
The whole course tips and notes are here (and the site has one for each Duolingo language): ,organized by skill individually: http://duolingo.wikia.com/wiki/Hebrew
You can also get them on the duolingo.com site (make sure your browser is in desktop view mode so you can see the other duolingo features like discussions & timed practice. From discussions you can search for all the discussions in this course (like this one you're reading, as well as see general duolingo discussions). If you can't see discussions on the main screen once logged into duolingo you're not in desktop view.
The Duolingo Hebrew Course has a dictionary for the words in the course. You can find it here https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/he
Other great resources that will help you
https://www.pealim.com/dict/6339-banana/
