"A spider is an animal."
Translation:עכביש הוא חיה.
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You need a copula here to connect the two nouns because otherwise you don't have a sentence but a two-noun construction. Hope that helps.
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It's called smichut or "construct state", where two nouns are put together, and they for another word. Example:
בית - house + ספר - book = בית ספר - school
ארוחה - meal + בוקר - morning = ארוחת בוקר - breakfast
TerribleTeri: I think because they are referring to the spider as an "it," not as a "he."
The word "he" was missing from my options so I changed to the keyboard to type it in. I tried to report it, but the missing word wasn't an option.
In older phases of Hebrew you could find עכביש, חיה הוא, but not in modern Hebrew.
a word in the answer "hu" is not in the word bank
i.e. same as above: The word "he" was missing from my options so I changed to the keyboard to type it in. I tried to report it, but the missing word wasn't an option.
I put זה instead of הוא and they accepted it without a typo. Is it actually correct?
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No, spiders are not insects. But it seems like you are implying that insects are not animals, is that what you are saying? That is also not correct.
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Sure, biologically you are 100% right. They fall in the animal category, but not in the insects. I was just experimenting with words, sorry