"אתם צמחוניים?"
Translation:Are you vegetarian?
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It depends whether "vegetarian" is used as a noun or an adjective, doesn't it? It could be both. In Hebrew there's a slight difference:
Are you vegetarian? (adjective) אתם צמחוניים?
Are you vegetarians? (noun) אתם צמחונים?
I understand the difference but is this really six of one, half a dozen of the other? I don't get it, in terms of: "are you"?
Is it not the same thing? In both cases they are adjectives. This is implicit, you can understand this when you be in a real scenario
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No, they are not the same. As Almog wrote, one is a noun and the other is an adjective. Their meaning is the same, but grammatically they are different. In both languages.
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Yes, but it can be referring to each of them. In Hebrew you must keep the plural, in English not.
They said my answer was wrong because I didn't translate it as are you ALL vegetarians ( why the all? It was not written?) Thanks again.
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Atem means plural you, if you use it you are referring to all of “you”, maybe they try to emphasis this
This should be perfectly acceptable in English - we don't have a formal plural you, so many people use "all you" or "you all" - which is perfectly acceptable.
In English we would prefer to say "Are you vegetarians?" as it makes it clear that you are speaking to more than one person.
Otherwise we would say "Are you all vegetarian?"
The distinction between noun and adjective in this case is not so important as the mood and in the implied meaning.
I just put "Are you a vegetarian?" and was marked wrong. It's much more common to use the article ("a") in English, but I will leave it out when answering this question from now on rather than reporting it.
Yes, I jas the same question. "Are you a vegetarian?" feels natural in English.
Cultural question to Israelites: I wondered whether there are many vegetarians in Israel, since they introduce this word so early on in the course? !תודה
It's one of the most vegetarian countries of the world, probably related to the Kosher rules
It's a lot easier to be vegetarian (and vegan) in Israel. If a restaurant is "milky" (as my husband says) they don't have meat anyway so it's a lot easier to find vegetarian dishes and unlike in the US they don't smother everything with cheese so it's easier to find fully plant-based dishes too.
Please note: Israelis are not Israelites.
You are talking about two different groups of people in two different periods of time.
Please note - Israeli and Israelite have two different meanings.
You mean Israeli in this case.
It's common issue of language learners to over estimate the speed. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-bilingual/201302/why-are-they-talking-so-fast
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The other point made by the article is closer to the point made by KingYeshua: that a learner needs to hear slower speech in order to get better comprehension.
That makes sense. "Are y'all vegetarian" works, but "Are y'all a vegetarian" won't work.
So as I understand in single form vegetarian is צמחוני and in plural masculine -- צמחוניים. And because here it is an adjective, we do not translate that as vegetarians.
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We'll have to take your word for it. We don't know what your translation was. If you want a second opinion, please include your answer.
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Actually, there is a difference. Vegetarian in English can be both an adjective and a noun. If it's a noun, if it's singular then it gets "a". Only then. However here it's an adjective, in plural form, and adjectives don't get articles when they stand on their own, not to mention when they are in plural, like here. So no, "a vegetarian" is not correct here.
Please ignore my previous comment - I read something that wasn't there! The alternative was "Are you vegetarian"! Sorry about that!