"לוּ ידעתָ כמה אתה חשוב לי."

Translation: If only you knew how important you are to me.

[ultara]

This sentence also makes sense if the first word is לא, which is what I heard...

[gsazbon]

Why the 'only'

[InonCohen]

It is implied and does not necesserily needs to be written .. In Hebrew you can say אילו/לו רק ידעת כמה אתה חשוב לי or אילו/לו ידעת כמה אתה חשוב לי and it would mean the same (perhaps the first a bit more desperate) just like in English - 'if only you knew how much you mean to me/how important you are to me' or 'if you knew how much you mean to me/how important you are to me'

HTH :)

[joelnaqqar]

So if we go back to the lessons notes, this sentence would probably not be used in everyday speech, and we would probably say: אם רק ידעת. Correct?

[InonCohen]

Correct

[Home-To-Him]

לוּ יָדַעְתָּ כַּמָּה אַתָּה חָשׁוּב לִי

[Theresa754142]

Lu yadata kama ata khashuv li.

[joelnaqqar]

So if it is lu and ilu, why is it pronouncing lo and elo?

[InonCohen]

It's not ..

[VivekRaman7]

Does this mean that when you use לו, the verb is in simple past tense and this is wrong:

לו היית יודעת

[Theresa754142]

According to Ingeborg, If you use lu, you may (but are not obliged) to use simple perfect, i.e. Lo motset, because the sense of counter-to-fact is already implied in lu.

[ada1067]

I'm confused. Wouldn't this be "iloo" and not "loo"?

[misterram]

Loo (לו) and iloo (אילו) are interchangeable

[ada1067]

oh, thanks :)

[Shpilbass]

I wrote important and it said i was wrong and it should be mean...

[Dov360473]

I'm curious why the Hebrew isn't עד כמה אתה חשוב לי. The plain כמה sounds, well, plain.