How does my coach handle masculine and feminine "you" in Hebrew?

In Hebrew, the word for "you" (ata / at), present-tense verbs (ani rotze / ani rotza), and adjectives change depending on whether the speaker or listener uses masculine or feminine grammatical forms.

Verbalta never guesses this from your name or your voice. Instead, your coach asks you once in English during setup how you'd like to be addressed in Hebrew.

Your three choices

1. Masculine forms: your coach addresses you with masculine singular forms (אתה, ata) and helps you practice masculine first-person verbs (אני רוצה, ani rotze).
2. Feminine forms: your coach addresses you with feminine singular forms (את, at) and helps you practice feminine first-person verbs (אני רוצה, ani rotza).
3. Rather not say: your coach prefers natural Hebrew phrasings that don't require a gendered singular "you", uses plural forms when a pronoun is needed, and accepts either masculine or feminine forms when you speak about yourself without ever correcting one into the other.

What about the coach's own gender?

Your coach also speaks in Hebrew, so each coach uses the grammatical forms that match their own voice: Noam, Eitan, and Oren use masculine forms for themselves, and Ayala and Yarden use feminine forms for themselves. In roleplay scenes (like talking to a shopkeeper or a neighbor), the character you're talking to uses their own forms too, giving you natural practice hearing both.

Unpointed words that look identical

In unpointed Hebrew, masculine rotze and feminine rotza are both spelled רוצה. Because speech-to-text transcripts don't mark vowels on identically spelled words, your coach never flags a false correction when your word is spelled the same way.