Word
הרופא אומר לי לקחת את התרופה אחרי הארוחה.
Meaning
The doctor tells me to take the medicine after the meal.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of הרופא אומר לי לקחת את התרופה אחרי הארוחה.
לי
to me
את
direct object marker
אחרי
after
לקחת
to take
Questions & Answers about הרופא אומר לי לקחת את התרופה אחרי הארוחה.
Why does the sentence start with הרופא and not just רופא?
Because ה־ means the.
- רופא = a doctor / doctor
- הרופא = the doctor
In this sentence, the speaker means a specific doctor, so Hebrew uses הרופא.
A useful pattern:
- רופא אומר... = A doctor says...
- הרופא אומר... = The doctor says...
Why is it אומר? What tense is that?
אומר is the present tense, masculine singular form of the verb לומר (to say).
So הרופא אומר לי... literally means The doctor says to me..., but in natural English it may also correspond to:
- The doctor tells me...
- The doctor is telling me...
Hebrew present tense often covers both simple present and present progressive, depending on context.
Related forms:
- אומר = masculine singular
- אומרת = feminine singular
- אומרים = masculine/mixed plural
- אומרות = feminine plural
Why is there a לי in the sentence?