"He has milk and bread."

Translation: יש לו חלב ולחם.

[danny912421]

Yesh lo chaláv ve-léchem.

[melanie.fr3]

Why לו?

[NaftaliFri1]

"He has" translates literally to "there is to him"

To him = לו

[AubreyMont3]

What is the transliteration for לו ?

[mimijones10]

I mistook לו for לא and didn't understand the word in the sentence. It didn't make sense translated "doesn't" nor would it be grammatically correct. Such a tiny word to throw off a whole question!

[BarakSaltz]

A sensible learning cue would be that they're both highly frequent words in Hebrew.

lām-alif ligature: لا
Arabic for "no" in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet

https://translate.google.com/

[VidAdler]

But does he have bread and butter?

[Camille309866]

Why יש לכם חלב ולחם isn't correct?

[NaftaliFri1]

He translates to הוא, not to לכם.

[BarakSaltz]

יש לכם חלב ולחם

translates into: You (plural) have milk and bread.

[Hsn626796]

Is חלב ולחם לו יש
correct ?

[NaftaliFri1]

Technically, but that word order is very very uncommon.

[RLevkoy]

Yoda (יודה) would say it with this word order.

[Lily825347]

זה לא נכון...
He has זה יש לו
אבל בעברית יש לו ולו יש זה אותו דבר
יש לו = לו יש
רק משנים את הסדר אבל זה אותו המשמעות

[melissa710718]

How is this review? I haven't seen this introduced yet!