How to Say I Need to Talk to You in Hebrew

Hebrew changes by who's talking and who they're talking to. Here's exactly how this one works.

Something came up with the apartment and you need your partner to call you back, so the message has to sound serious but not alarming.

How it's said

Texting a manTexting a woman
You're a manאני צריך לדבר איתךani tzarich ledaber itchaאני צריך לדבר איתךani tzarich ledaber itach
You're a womanאני צריכה לדבר איתךani tzricha ledaber itchaאני צריכה לדבר איתךani tzricha ledaber itach

Written Hebrew: this message is spelled identically whether you're sending it to a man or a woman. That's genuinely how Hebrew works without vowel points, not a simplification. Say it out loud, though, and it splits in two: itcha to a man, itach to a woman.

Why this matters

The modal tzarich/tzricha agrees with speaker gender; the infinitive ledaber is invariant, and the suffixed preposition איתך carries addressee gender in pronunciation only.

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