How to say it in Hebrew
Tip #47

I am often asked ...

How to say "all" in Hebrew?
Remember all the people…
When we say it – it wouldn't be natural to omit the "the" and say "remember all __ people" instead, right? But I often hear this mistake from the learners of Hebrew! English is reliable in this case – we do have to say "all the people," "all the questions," or "all the countries!" So, when "all" is KOL and the is "HA-, " what do we get?
Right, KOL HA- כָּל ה-, that's the correct way to say it!
So,
"All the people" – כָּל הָאֲנָשִׁים
All the questions – כָּל הַשְּׁאֵלוֹת
All the countries – כָּל הַמְּדִינוֹת
All (the) week (long)* – *כָּל הַשָּׁבוּעַ

*here is a song with these words that everyone knows - כָּל הַשָּׁבוּעַ חַלּוֹן פָּתוּחַ

Simple? Yes! Like in English?
Why do we make mistakes, then?
For one simple reason - because we do hear "KOL" used without HA-! Our brain detects it, marks that "in Hebrew it must be different" and tries to exercise this difference at the first opportunity!: D Without really being aware that… it means something else! What does it mean, do you know?
I hope you answered correctly!
It means – "every"!

Like in -
every day – כָּל יוֹם
every child knows – כָּל יֶלֶד יוֹדֵעַ

But there is one thing that needs to be added…
HA- can be placed before the KOL! (Resulting it HA- KOL)
In this case, you get the most general expression "הַכֹּל" meaning - "everything"!

Examples:
אֲנִי מֵבִין אֶת הַכֹּל
אֲנִי לֹא יְכוֹלָה לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת הַכֹּל לַבַּד
הַכֹּל בְּסֵדֶר?*

*The most common mistake for English- speakers is to confuse the two!
Especially when in the expression הַכֹּל בְּסֵדֶר someone drops the HA- - it sounds strange -
it sounds like "every ok?" (instead of "is everything ok?")
Them, all…
Now, there is something special to add!
After the "all" word we add an additional word to explain what we are talking about, right? Like – "all the people" or "all day." It can also be "all of us" or "all of them." In Hebrew (as it often happens!) we have a way to combine "all" with "us" and "them" (or any other personal pronoun)!
First, let's look at how we combine the "all" with "us" – for saying "all of us" -
you take כָּל and add the אֲנַחְנוּ
as a result we get כֻּלָּנוּ!

For example -
כֻּלָּנוּ רוֹצִים לִחְיוֹת בְּשָׁלוֹם!
We all want to live in peace!
לֹא לְכֻלָּנוּ יֵשׁ עֲבוֹדָה! Not all of us have work!
כֻּלָּנוּ מַסְכִּימִים שֶׁצָּרִיךְ לְהַמְשִׁיךְ!
We all agree that we need to continue!

"All of you" then would be כָּל אַתֶּם= כֻּלְּכֶם
Example:
כֻּלְּכֶם בֶּטַח רוֹצִים לָדַעַת אֵיךְ הַסִּפּוּר נִגְמָר
All of you surely want to know how the story ended.

And there are also forms for "all of them" – it it very useful, because it can mean something like "all the people" or "everyone"!
כָּל הֵם= כֻּלָּם
Examples:
כֻּלָּם יוֹדְעִים שֶׁזֶּה שֶׁקֶר, אֲבָל מַמְשִׁיכִים לַסֵּפֶר עַל זֶה.
Everyone knows that it's a lie, but they keep telling about
רֶגַע, אֵיפֹה כֻּלָּם? אֲנִי לֹא רוֹאֶה אַף אֶחָד
Wait a second, where is everyone? I don't see anybody...
אוּלַי זֶה לֹא לְכֻלָּם, אֲבָל הָאֲנָשִׁים הַמַּתְאִימִים יָבִינוּ.Maybe it's not for everyone, but the suitable people will understand.

I hope, all of you (how do we say it? ;) ) can use the "all" word now,
See you next week!
Happy Hebrew-learning!
Alisa
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