Questions & Answers about בואו נשב במרפסת; יש שם כיבוד קטן ותה חם.
Why does the sentence start with בואו? Does it literally mean come?
Yes. בואו literally means come! and is the imperative form used when speaking to more than one person.
In this sentence, though, it is not just about physical movement. It helps create a natural invitation:
בואו נשב... = Come, let's sit... / Let's sit...
Related forms:
- בוא = to one male
- בואי = to one female
- בואו = to more than one person
In everyday Hebrew, בוא/בואי/בואו often works like come on or let's.
Why is נשב a future-tense form if the meaning is let's sit?
This is a very common Hebrew pattern. The form נשב is grammatically first person plural future: we will sit.
But Hebrew often uses the 1st person plural future to make suggestions or proposals:
- נלך = we will go / let's go
- נאכל = we will eat / let's eat
- נשב = we will sit / let's sit
So here בואו נשב is a natural way to say come, let's sit.
Why is it במרפסת? Doesn’t that literally mean rather than ?