Questions & Answers about אני מקווה שנוכל לשמור על קשר גם אחרי הקורס.
What does אני מקווה mean, and does it change depending on whether the speaker is male or female?
אני מקווה means I hope.
A useful thing to know is that מקווה is the same form for both a male and a female speaker in modern everyday Hebrew. So both a man and a woman can say:
אני מקווה... = I hope...
This is very common and natural.
What is the role of ש־ in שנוכל?
The ש־ at the beginning means that.
So:
- אני מקווה = I hope
- שנוכל = that we can / that we’ll be able to
Together:
- אני מקווה שנוכל... = I hope that we can...
In English, that is often optional, but in Hebrew ש־ is very commonly used in this kind of sentence.
What does נוכל mean exactly?