English to Hebrew Translator

English has one word for “you.” Hebrew has four, depending on who is being addressed: אתה (to a man), את (to a woman), אתם (to men or a mixed group), אתן (to women). The verb that follows changes its ending to match. Speaker gender is a separate mark: present-tense verbs and adjectives agree with the speaker (אני הולך vs אני הולכת), which English also never writes down.

A translator that ignores this has to guess, and it guesses male by default more often than not. That is why this page asks two short questions before it translates: who is speaking, and who is being spoken to. The Hebrew that comes back matches both.

Reading the Transliteration

Every result includes a Latin-letter reading underneath the Hebrew, so a sentence can be spoken before the letters are familiar. It is a simple system (kh for כ, tz for צ), meant for saying the sentence out loud, not for spelling it back in Hebrew letters.