Questions & Answers about אני לא כועסת עכשיו, כי הבית שקט.
Why is כועסת used here instead of כועס?
Because כועסת is the feminine singular form.
In this sentence, the speaker is female, so she says:
- אני לא כועסת עכשיו = I am not angry now
A male speaker would say:
- אני לא כועס עכשיו
In Hebrew, words like angry often agree with the gender of the person they describe.
Is כועסת a verb or an adjective?
It behaves a bit like both, which is very common in Hebrew.
In sentences like this, כועסת is the present-tense form of the verb לכעוס = to be angry / to get angry, but present-tense forms in Hebrew also work very much like adjectives.
So אני לא כועסת is literally something like:
- I not angry
But in natural English, that becomes:
- I am not angry
Hebrew usually does not use a separate word for am / is / are in the present tense.
Why is there no word for am in the sentence?
Because in present-tense Hebrew, the verb to be is usually omitted.
So:
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