תראה לי את התמונה של התיק השחור ששמרת בטלפון.

Show me the picture of the black bag that you saved on the phone.

Breakdown of תראה לי את התמונה של התיק השחור ששמרת בטלפון.

• לי: to me
• ב: on
• את: direct object marker
• תמונה: picture

Questions & Answers about תראה לי את התמונה של התיק השחור ששמרת בטלפון.

Why does the sentence start with תראה? Isn’t that a future form?

Yes — תראה is formally the 2nd person masculine singular future form of להראות (to show).

But in everyday Hebrew, the future form is very often used as a command/request, especially in spoken language.

So here:

• תראה לי = show me
• more strictly grammatical imperative: הראה לי

Both are possible, but תראה לי sounds very natural in conversation.

A learner should also know that the same written form can sometimes look like you will show or even you will see depending on context and verb family, so context is important.

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Where is the word you in this sentence?

Hebrew usually does not need a separate subject pronoun when the verb already tells you who the subject is.

In תראה, the verb itself already tells you:

• 2nd person
• singular
• masculine

So Hebrew does not need to say אתה here.

The same thing happens later with שמרת:

• it already means you saved / you kept

So Hebrew often builds the subject right into the verb, unlike English.

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What does לי mean here?