lessons 11 and 12

anee holechet lekolno'a





קולנוע 

  
shalom and don't forget to practice it all on:

http://www.memrise.com/course/78569/modern-hebrew-for-beginners-2/

הוא                          hu                                        he

היא                          hee                                      she

היא הולכת                hee holechet                       she goes

הוא הולך                  hu holech                            he goes

אני הולך                   anee holech                         I go (masc.)

אני הולכת                 anee holech                         I go (fem.)

קולנוע                      kolno'a                                 cinema

ל                              le                                         to

לאן                           le'an                                    where to

לאן אתה הולך           le'an ata holech?                 where to do you go?

לאן אתה הולכת         le'an at holechet?                where to do you go?

אני הולך לקולנוע       anee holech lekolno'a           I go to the cinema

אני הולכת לקולנוע     anee holechet lekolno'a        I go to the cinema

verbs:
holech - holechet is an easy one, it follows the lomed - lomedet pattern
in terms of meaning it is a little more complex, it covers 'to go' and 'to walk'.
In the memrise excercises I only used it as 'to go' because otherwise it would
become too complicated but it's important to know that it also means 'to walk'.

prepositions:
our first preposition le- means to or toward
it is a prefix, which means it is glued to the following noun: le + kolno'a = lekolno'a
in Hebrew prepositions are always joined to the following noun which makes it a bit tricky
at first when learning to read because we are used to haviing gaps between words and in Hebrew prepositions are not considered to be individual words. The same happens with conjunctions and articles. So, just as an example: when a word begins with l- or b- or h- it might not be the first letter of the word at all but a preposition or something else and only the second letter will be the 'real' beginning of the word. That's tricky at first but one gets used to it with practice.


interrogative determiner (sorry for the horrid technical term)
they are very useful little words for asking lots of questions and more of them are coming soon

we've learned three so far:
mee? = who?
mah? = what?
le'an? =  where to?

personal pronouns
we've got all the singular forms now:
anee = I
ata = you (masc.)
at = you (fem.)
hu = he
hee = she