lesson 66
anachnou korim
Long promised and finally here: verb conjugation in the present tense: plural. As I said before it's fairly easy and thus a perfect opportunity to revise all the verbs we did so far.
today we will get started with the verbs who behave like lomed - lomedet in the present tense singular because they all work the same.
masculine: I, you, he read(s) = anee, ata, hou kore
feminine: I, you, she reads(s ) = anee, at, hee koret
In the plural the masculine ending is always -im and the feminine always -ot
(the same as with nouns):
masculine: we, you, they read = anachnou, atem, hem korim
feminine: we, you, they read = anachnou, aten, hen korot
medaber- medaberet : medabrim - medabrot speak
'oved - 'ovedet : 'ovdim - 'ovdot work
'ochel - 'ochelet : 'ochlim - 'ochlot eat
kotev - kotevet : kotvim - kotvot write
holech - holechet : holchim - holchot go/walk
'omer - 'omeret : omrim - omrot say
'ohev - 'ohevet : ohavim - ohavot love
lomed - lomedet : lomdim - lomdot learn
now, if you look closely they all have little quirks (except for kore- koret), mostly they lose an 'e' before attaching the plural ending. It looks confusing at first but it is fairly regular. It's just one of those things one has to get used to and with a little practice it will look and sound completely normal in no time at all.
and here some mini-sentences for every plural form:
anachnou medabrim anglit
hen medabrot ivrit
anachnou ovdim be Tel Aviv
aten ovdot be Haifa?
anachnou ochlim ougat pereg
hen ochlot tapouzim
anachnou kotvim sefer
hen kotvot iton
anchanou hochlim le kolno'a
le'an aten hochlot?
mah omrim be ivrit?
mah aten omrot?
anachnou ohavim ha yam
hen ohavot Israel
anachnou omrim ivrit
aten omrot anglit?
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