Questions & Answers about גם הוא עובד באוניברסיטה, אבל אני לא עובד שם.
What does גם mean here, and why is it at the beginning of the sentence?
גם means also, too, or as well.
In גם הוא עובד באוניברסיטה, it means He also works at the university.
Putting גם before הוא highlights he:
- גם הוא עובד... = He too works...
Hebrew word order is flexible, but this placement is very natural when you want to say that someone else is included in the same statement.
Why is הוא included? Could Hebrew just say גם עובד באוניברסיטה?
In this sentence, הוא is included because the speaker wants to say he also.
Hebrew often allows subject pronouns to be omitted when the verb already makes the subject clear, but here the pronoun is useful for emphasis and contrast:
- גם הוא עובד... אבל אני לא...
- He also works... but I don't...
Without הוא, the sentence would sound incomplete or less clear in this context.
What does עובד mean exactly?