הוא צריך לקנות קפה עכשיו.

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Breakdown of הוא צריך לקנות קפה עכשיו.

• קפה: coffee
• עכשיו: now
• לקנות: to buy

Questions & Answers about הוא צריך לקנות קפה עכשיו.

How is this sentence pronounced, and what would it look like with vowel marks?

With vowel marks, it is:

הוּא צָרִיךְ לִקְנוֹת קָפֶה עַכְשָׁיו

A common transliteration is:

hu tsarikh liknot kafe akhshav

Approximate stress:

• tsa-RIKH
• lik-NOT
• ka-FE
• akh-SHAV

A few pronunciation notes:

• ך in צריך is pronounced like kh
• ח in עכשיו is usually the same kh sound
• ע in modern Israeli Hebrew is often very weak or silent

Why is there no word for is or does in this sentence?

Hebrew usually does not use a present-tense form of to be in sentences like this, and it also does not need a helping verb like English does.

So הוא צריך does not literally match English word-for-word. Hebrew simply says he need/necessary, and natural English becomes he needs to or he has to.

What exactly is צריך here? Is it a normal verb?