Learn Hardcore Hebrew: אם את רוצה, אני יכולה לקנות גם פיצה בדרך לפארק. - If you want, I can also buy pizza on the way to the park.

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אם את רוצה, אני יכולה לקנות גם פיצה בדרך לפארק.

Meaning

If you want, I can also buy pizza on the way to the park.

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Breakdown of אם את רוצה, אני יכולה לקנות גם פיצה בדרך לפארק.

Why are there feminine forms in this sentence?

Because both the person being addressed and the speaker are female.

So the sentence is something a woman says to another woman.

If you were speaking to a man, you would say:

If the speaker were male, it would be:

Hebrew marks gender much more often than English does.

Why is רוצה written the same way for masculine and feminine?

In unpointed Hebrew spelling, some masculine and feminine forms look identical in writing.

So:

The spelling is the same, but the pronunciation changes. Here, because the subject is את, it must be read as the feminine form: rotza.

This is very common in everyday Hebrew, since most texts are written without vowel marks.

Why does the sentence use אם את רוצה instead of a future form like אם תרצי?