Questions & Answers about היא קונה את הקפה ואת החלב בחנות.
What does each part of היא קונה את הקפה ואת החלב בחנות do in the sentence?
A word-by-word breakdown:
- היא = she
- קונה = buys / is buying
- את = a marker used before a definite direct object
- הקפה = the coffee
- ו = and
- את החלב = the milk with the direct-object marker again
- בחנות = in a shop / in the shop, depending on context and vowel marking
So the structure is:
she + buys + the coffee + and + the milk + in the shop/store
What form is קונה?
קונה is the present-tense form of the verb לקנות, meaning to buy.
In this sentence, it matches היא = she, so it means she buys or she is buying.
A useful thing to know: in unpointed Hebrew writing, קונה can look the same for:
- he buys
- she buys
The pronoun היא tells you this sentence is feminine: she.
Can קונה mean both buys and is buying?