Word
כואבת לי הרגל.
Meaning
My leg hurts.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about כואבת לי הרגל.
Why is it כואבת and not כואב?
Because רגל is a feminine singular noun in Hebrew, and the present-tense form כואבת agrees with it.
So the pattern is:
- masculine singular: כואב
- feminine singular: כואבת
- masculine plural: כואבים
- feminine plural: כואבות
Since הרגל is feminine singular, כואבת is the correct form.
What does לי mean in this sentence?
לי means to me.
In this kind of Hebrew sentence, the person experiencing the pain is often marked with ל־ plus a pronoun:
- לי = to me
- לך = to you
- לו = to him
- לה = to her
So כואבת לי הרגל is literally something like the leg hurts to me, which is how Hebrew commonly expresses my leg hurts.
Why does Hebrew say הרגל and not הרגל שלי?