התמדה עוזרת להתאוששות.

Persistence helps recovery.

Breakdown of התמדה עוזרת להתאוששות.

• לעזור: to help
• התאוששות: recovery
• התמדה: persistence; consistency

Questions & Answers about התמדה עוזרת להתאוששות.

Why does התמדה start with ה? Is that the Hebrew word for the?

No. In התמדה, the initial ה is part of the word itself, not the definite article.

התמדה is a noun meaning perseverance / persistence / consistency.

This is a very common point of confusion, because Hebrew also uses ה־ as the. But here the word is simply התמדה, not the perseverance.

If you actually wanted the perseverance, you would say ההתמדה.

The same idea applies to התאוששות later in the sentence: its initial ה is also part of the noun, not the.

Why is עוזרת feminine and not עוזר?

Because התמדה is a feminine singular noun, and the present-tense verb form agrees with it.

• התמדה = feminine singular
• so helps must be עוזרת
• not עוזר, which is masculine singular

Hebrew present-tense verb forms behave a lot like adjectives in this way: they match the subject in gender and number.

So:

• הוא עוזר = he helps
• היא עוזרת = she helps
• התמדה עוזרת = perseverance helps

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