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בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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בחוף יש חול רב.

en: On the beach there is a lot of sand.

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Corinnebelle

Re: בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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Is sand always singular?

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EranBarLev
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Re: בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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Corinnebelle wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:16 am

Is sand always singular?

Yes, it's uncountable.

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Re: בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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Pealim has חולות but quantifies it as dunes. Would one say
החולות של זמן או החול של זמן for the sands of time?

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Re: בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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Corinnebelle wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:44 pm

Pealim has חולות but quantifies it as dunes.

חולות is the plural of חולה, which indeed can also mean "dune".

Corinnebelle wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:44 pm

Would one say
החולות של זמן או החול של זמן for the sands of time?

I'm not familiar with this expression. I don't thinks it exists in Hebrew. We do have שעון חול, but I'm not sure that's what the English expression means.
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Re: בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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Well שעון חול is literally an hourglass but I've never heard it as an expression in English.
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Corinnebelle

Re: בחוף יש חול רב. (en → he)

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It is related to an hourglass, or rather how the sand records time. So you call that a sand clock? :D

Sands of time idiom

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Corinnebelle wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:32 pm

It is related to an hourglass, or rather how the sand records time. So you call that a sand clock? :D

Sands of time idiom

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It's me misspelling בעברית :D

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