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  • From: "Joel Nothman" <jnothman AT student.usyd.edu.au>
  • To: "Deborah Millier" <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: agent or patient in Psa. 33:12?
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:39:31 +1000


Once the object has been established by context,
modern Hebrew speakers *often* drop the object, don't
they?

Definitely do. "Atah rotzeh?" is a perfect example, but it also works on things like "'asiti kvar".

But on the other hand after speaking so much Modern Hebrew, I can't tell whether my Aussie mates say "you want?" or whether that's a Hebraism I've adopted into my English where I should really be adding "some"...

- Joel

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