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- "A spider is an animal."
"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."
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who "they"? Hebrews don't have equivalent for it, just he/she according to grammar gender of the noun. That's why there are 2 options 1) הוא/היא ;2) זה. both mean pretty much the same, though there is a slight difference in meaning. 1) smth1, he/she [is] smth2; 2) smth1, this [is] smth2.
Anyhow, both play a role of copula, between 2 nouns, as smb has mentioned 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.
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.
Where so I get pronunciation? Me rise doesn't work. And why do I have to learn all these useless animal's names? So frustrating!
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What's the problem with Memrise? It works just fine for me. You can also use forvo.com to find pronunciation.
