Sunday, March 7, 2010

Hebrew: Possesion, More Group 1, and Word Pairs

Possesion

There are two ways:

1 - someone's something or possesive pronouns

shel - של means of (must use ha - ה with the possessed.

I like the restaurant's trout.
אני אוהבה את הפורל של המסעדח
Ani ohevet et ha'forel shel ha'mis-adah.

But shel can with pronoun endings too

my - sheli - שלי
your (m) - shelkha - שלך
your (f) - shelakh - שלך
his - shelo - שלו
her - shelah - שלה
our - shelanu - שלנו
your (m) - shelakhem - שלכם
your (f) - shelaken - שלכן
their (m) - shelahem - שלהם
their (f) - shelahen - שלהן

My family lives in America.
המשפחה שלי גרח באמריקה
Ha'mispakhah sheli garah b'amerikah.

there is no verb that means to have instead you say to (person) there is (not)

to me - li - לי
to you - lekha / lakh - לך
to him - lo - לו
to her - lah - לה
to us - lanu - לנו
to you - lakhem / lakhen - לכם / לכן
to them - lahem / lahen - להם / להן

We have the tickets.
יש לנו הכרטיסים
Yesh lanu ha'kartisim.

Sarah doesn't have house.
לשׂרה אין בית
L'Sarah eyn bayit.

Can also switch position of eyn/yesh and person/pronoun.

More Group 1 Verbs

those with a middle letter of ו or י drop that letter

to live/dwell
infinitive: la'gur - לגור
root: gur – גור
conjugation:

gar - גר
garah - גרה
garim - גרים
garot - גרות

Yakhol is a verb that means can/able to and like in English it has no infinitive and verbs that follow it take the infinitive.

Can you come to my office?
אתח יכול לפגוש להמשׂרד שלי
Atah yakhol l'fgosh la'ha'misrad sheli/

Questions

Preposition+which+noun+subject+verb..

What university are you studying at?
באיזו אוניורסיטה את לומדת
B'eyzo universitah at lomedet?

*Hebrew colloquially uses איזה for the plural which instead of אילו

Word Pairs

Word pairs are word that when put together make a new word that in english often needs a preposition. If the first word ends in ah - ה it changes to ת. Also when it is definite only the second word is preceded by the. Some nouns also change vowels, such as house "bayit" changing to beyt.

glass of water
כוס מימ

the school
בית הספר

the weekend
סופ השבוע
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