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Questions & Answers about גם המועמד שישב לידה שאל אם זאת משרה מלאה.
What does גם mean here, and why is it at the beginning?
גם means also / too.
At the start of the sentence, it gives the sense of the candidate sitting next to her also asked... In other words, someone else asked something before, and now this candidate did too.
Hebrew often places גם right before the word or phrase it is emphasizing. Here it is emphasizing המועמד.
Why is it המועמד and not just מועמד?
The ה־ at the beginning is the definite article, meaning the.
So:
- מועמד = a candidate
- המועמד = the candidate
In this sentence, the speaker is referring to a specific candidate, further identified by the relative clause שישב לידה (who was sitting next to her).
What is שישב exactly?