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Asking if someone can do something

Asking if someone can do something

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Asking if someone can do something

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Absolute Beginner Season 1, Lesson 12 Can you eat this Israeli meatball? In this lesson you will learn how to ask if someone can do something in Hebrew. The conversation takes place at David and Sarah's house. And again, it's between Peter, David, and Sarah. And it's informal. Ma ze? Zot ktzitza. Ktzitza? Ken, ze basar. Ata yachol leichol basar. Ken, hmm, ze taim. Let's listen to the conversation with English translation. Ma ze? What is this? Zot ktzitza. This is a meatball. Ktzitza? Meatball? Ken, ze basar. Ata yachol leichol basar. Yes, it's meat. Can you eat meat? Ken, hmm, ze taim. Yes, hmm, it's delicious. First we have ktzitza. Meatball. Ktzi-tza. Ktzitza. Next basar. Meat. Ba-sar. Basar. Next ata. You, masculine. A-ta. Ata. Next yachol. Can, or be able to. Ya-hol. Ya-hol. And last? Le-e-hol. To eat. Le-e-hol. Le-e-hol. In this lesson, you will learn how to ask if someone can do something in Hebrew. For this, we need our vocabulary word for can, ya-hol. This is the conjunction…

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