Breakdown of מסגרת המשקפיים יושבת נכון בלי שהאפון זז.
לשבת
to sit
בלי ש
without
נכון
correctly
לזוזlazuz
to move; budge
Questions & Answers about מסגרת המשקפיים יושבת נכון בלי שהאפון זז.
Why is מסגרת singular, but המשקפיים is plural?
Because the sentence is talking about the frame of the glasses, not about multiple frames.
- מסגרת = frame
- משקפיים = glasses
So מסגרת המשקפיים literally means the frame of the glasses.
Also, משקפיים is one of those Hebrew nouns that looks plural and behaves grammatically as plural, even though in English we often treat glasses as a single item in meaning.
Why doesn’t מסגרת have ה־ if the phrase means the eyeglass frame?
This is because of construct state (called סמיכות in Hebrew).
In a construct chain like:
- מסגרת המשקפיים
the first noun usually does not take ה־, and the definiteness is shown on the second noun:
- מסגרת המשקפיים = the frame of the glasses
- not usually המסגרת של המשקפיים in this compact style
Since המשקפיים is definite, the whole phrase becomes definite.
Why is the verb יושבת feminine?