Wednesday 27 March 2013

lessons 29 and 30 matay ata yachol lavo


lessons 29 and 30  
 
matay ata yachol lavo?
 

Comong Soon road sign against  blue sky Stock Photo - 10828253

מתי אתה יכול לבוא

when can you come?
 
 
I am starting to retrofit a few drawings and mini dialogues to hopefully make this blog a little more colourful even in the beginning stages where I started out with only vocabulary and grammar.
 

 
                                      
              מתי את יכולה לבוא                              
                           אני יכולה לבוא ביום ראשון                          

 
                           matay at yecholah lavo?
                           anee yecholah lavo beyom rishon.




אני יכול                                 anee yachol                                  I can (masc.)

את יכולה                               anee yecholah                              I can (fem.)

לבוא                                       lavo                                               to come

אתה יכול לבוא                      ata yachol lavo?                           can you come? (masc.)

את יכולה לבוא                      at yecholah lavo?                         can you come? (fem.)

מתי                                         matay                                             when

מתי אתה יכול לבוא               matay ata yachol lavo?                  when can you come? (masc.)

מתי את יכולה לבוא               matay at yecholah lavo?               when can you come? fem.)

יום ראשון                                yom rishon                                    Sunday

אני יכול לבוא ביום ראשון     anee yachol lavo bayom rishon     I can come on Sunday



auxilliary verbs
like rotzeh / rotzah and yachol / yecholah, tzarich / tzrichah are great when you start speaking Hebrew because they can combine with the infinitive of other verbs which you don't have to conjugate. I'll explain this later in more detail.


infinitives
we'll bring in the infinitives now. So far we concentrated on the present tense singular forms of verbs but the infinitives are very important too. especially because of their potential in combination with auxilliary verbs
you'll soon recognise infinitives easily by their form: they all start with ל =  li / le / la
lalechet = to go/walk.  lilmod = to learn.   ledaber = to speak.  to name just a few examples which will be discussed in more detail later.

yom rishon
Hebrew just counts the days of the week that's relatively easy but a bit confusing at first.
yom rischon = first day. For now just learn this one day. We'll do the ordinal numbers soon.
That's the ordinal numbers in English:  first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth ...

a new question today: matay? = when?




 as always memrise lessons are waiting:


 
 

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