lessons 9+10 mah omrim be'ivrit

lessons 9+10  

 

mah omrim be'ivrit?

 

 



קפה עם חלב 
kafeh 'im chalav

 

 

Shalom! Today we're going to learn a very important question: how do we say in Hebrew? Mah omrim be'ivrit? and how to order coffee and water. And a few other things as well:

?מה נשמע                        mah nishma'                        how are you? (what will we hear?)

לא רע תודה                     lo ra todah                            not bad thank you

אני אומר                          anee omer                              I say

אני אומרת                        anee omeret                           I say

מה את אומרת                   mah at omeret                        what do you say (fem.)

מה אתה אומר                   mah ata omer                         what do you say (masc.)

מה אומרים בעברית           mah omrim be'ivrit               what do we say in Hebrew?
                                                                                             

אני רוצה                          anee rotzeh                             I want (masc.)

אני רוצה                          anee rotzah                             I want (fem.)

קפה                                kafeh                                       coffee

עם                                  im                                            with

חלב                                chalav                                       milk

מים                                 maim                                        water

כוס                                 kos                                            glass

קפה עם חלב                   kafeh im chalav                         coffee with milk

כוס מים                          kos ma'im                                   a glass of water

אני רוצה כוס מים             anee rotzah kos ma'im                I want a glass of water (fem.)

אני רוצה קפה עם חלב     anee rotzeh kafeh im chalav        I want coffee with milk (masc.)

Quite a big lesson today. and lots of training at:

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

 

verbs
omer - omeret (say) works exactly like lomed - lomedet (learn)

the first auxilliary verb:
rotzeh - rotzah (want)
important now and even more once the infinitives will come into play

an important question
look closely at the 'mah omrim beivrit', the -im in omrim is a plural ending. The word by word translation is 'how do we say in Hebrew'. Plurals will be discussed much later in this course but I think that the sentence 'mah omrim beivrit' is so extremly useful that I didn't want to wait. 

the first conjunction: im = with
conjunctions are words like: and, or, with, without, but...
more conjunctions will follow soo of course because they are so frequent and important


mah nishma?
'Mah nishma' literally translated means 'what will we hear?'
The 'nishma' is the first person plural in the future tense of the verb 'lishmo'a' =  'to hear'
nishma = we will hear   And the expression is used as an equivalent to the English 'How are you?'.

It is easier in the beginning because you don't have to distinguish the gender as in:
mah shlomcha (masc.) ?  
mah shlomech (fem.) ?
which literally means : what (is) your wellbeing / peace?
and is again an equivalent to the English 'How are you?'
We'll learn mah shlomcha? / mah shlomech? somewhere later in this course.
As for the future tense it'll probably appear around lesson 75 or later.