Here’s a phrase we teach in our Level 1 course: בוא איתי

– come with me. בוא

means “come!”, while איתי

means “with me.”

We use בוא איתי

when speaking to a male. To a female we use בואי

, adding י-

to the end to make it a feminine imperative (command). And to more than one person we add ּו-

to the end: בואו

.

For example:

בואו איתי למסיבה, יהיה כיף!

Come with me (guys) to the party, it’ll be fun!

בוא

is an imperative form of לבוא

– to come, a simple verb of the root ב.ו.א

.

איתי

is a form of את

, which sometimes means with. More on that in today’s video.