Word
אני מרגישה נבוכה כשכולם מסתכלים עליי בזמן שאני מדברת.
Meaning
I feel embarrassed when everyone looks at me while I am speaking.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of אני מרגישה נבוכה כשכולם מסתכלים עליי בזמן שאני מדברת.
אני
I
לדבר
to speak
כש
when
להרגיש
to feel
Questions & Answers about אני מרגישה נבוכה כשכולם מסתכלים עליי בזמן שאני מדברת.
Why are מרגישה, נבוכה, and מדברת in the feminine form?
Because the speaker is female.
In Hebrew, verbs in the present tense and many adjectives agree with the gender and number of the subject.
- אני מרגישה = I feel (said by a woman)
- נבוכה = embarrassed / awkward (feminine singular)
- אני מדברת = I speak / I am speaking (said by a woman)
If a man were saying the same sentence, it would be:
אני מרגיש נבוך כשכולם מסתכלים עליי בזמן שאני מדבר.
Why is מסתכלים plural masculine?
Because its subject is כולם, meaning everyone.
In Hebrew, כולם is grammatically treated as plural masculine in many contexts, even though in English everyone feels singular. So the verb appears in the masculine plural form:
- כולם מסתכלים = everyone is looking
If the group were explicitly all female, Hebrew could use feminine plural in some contexts, but כולם מסתכלים is the normal general form.
What does כשכולם mean exactly?