How to Say Where Are You in Hebrew
You are meeting your son at the shuk, you have been waiting ten minutes, and you want to send the standard Israeli check-in text.
How it's said
| Texting a man | Texting a woman |
|---|---|
| איפה אתה?eifo ata? | איפה את?eifo at? |
This phrase doesn't change based on who's sending it. Only who you're texting to changes the Hebrew here: the speaker's gender never appears in this sentence.
Why this matters
The only gendered element is the second-person pronoun ata/at, which agrees with the addressee; the question word eifo is invariant and no verb is present.
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