"הרופא לא האמין שאני חתול."
Translation:The doctor did not believe that I am a cat.
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Species-categorisation is a social construct made by the patriarchy to oppress cat-people. Support equal rights for cats! Also, attack-helicopters.
Your turning the decades long struggle of attack-helicopter people like me into a joke offends me. We might have gatling guns, but we're also equipped with feelings, you know.
In the notes of the lesson it is written: "all hiph'il verbs in the past tense start with "hi"." But in this case it starts with a "he" sound. Are there more hiph'il verbs like this one (לְהַאֲמִין) that in the past start with a "he" sound?, is there some kind or rule to detect them?
It is הֶאֱמִין because, if you have a guttural or aleph as first consonant in the Hiphil, the first syllable opens up, here to the soft combination [heXe], sometimes to the hard combination [heX] like in הֶחְסִיר.
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Is it correct in english: ...that I am a cat? (because I'm still a cat, not that I was a cat)
סוף סופ . אבל הוא היה צריך לעשות בדיקות דם רבות, וגם הייתי צריך לענות על הרבה שאלות לפני שהוא היה בתוח! Translation: Finally! But he had to do many blood tests and I also had to answer a lot of questions before he was sure!
