Questions & Answers about לא נשאר שום קפה במשרד, אז אני שותה רק מים.
לא נשאר literally means didn’t remain / wasn’t left, so the sentence gives the idea that there used to be coffee, but now it has run out.
- לא נשאר שום קפה במשרד = There’s no coffee left in the office
- אין קפה במשרד = There is no coffee in the office
So אין קפה is more neutral and just states absence, while לא נשאר קפה emphasizes that the coffee is gone.
Here שום means any or no ... at all, depending on the negative sentence around it.
So:
- לא נשאר שום קפה = There isn’t any coffee left / No coffee is left at all
It adds emphasis, a bit like saying:
- not any coffee
- no coffee whatsoever
This is a very common pattern in Hebrew:
לא + verb + שום + noun