Word
המכונית שלי בחניה ליד הבית.
Meaning
My car is in the parking space near the house.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Questions & Answers about המכונית שלי בחניה ליד הבית.
Why is the possessive written after the noun in המכונית שלי?
In Hebrew, the most common everyday way to show possession is:
noun + של + pronoun
So המכונית שלי literally works like the car of me, but in natural English that is just my car.
This is the normal pattern in Modern Hebrew:
- הספר שלי = my book
- הבית שלו = his house
- החברים שלנו = our friends
So for an English speaker, the main thing to remember is: the possessive usually comes after the noun.
Why does המכונית have ה־ if the sentence means my car and not the car my?
The ה־ is the definite article, like the in English.
In Modern Hebrew, המכונית שלי is the normal way to say my car when you mean a specific, definite car. The phrase is definite as a whole.
A useful contrast is:
- המכונית שלי = my car / the car that is mine
- מכונית שלי = often more like a car of mine
So the ה־ helps make it sound definite and specific.
What exactly is שלי?