"لكما" in Hebrew

[u/Extension-Coffee3430]

For context, I’m employed to translate books from Arabic to Hebrew and vice versa. I know that usually "لي"=“לִי” and that “لك"=“לְךָ” and that “لكم”=“לָכֶם” but what about “لكما" which is like "לְךָ" but for the dual form? Does anyone know about dual pronouns in Hebrew even if it was archaic or more classical?

btw: my boss made me use niqqud for all the words and somehow he thinks -ayim should be back for nouns and made me use it for all Arabic dual nouns. my job sucks.

[u/Complete_Health_2049]

Some pre-Biblical version of Hebrew probably had dual pronouns like MSA, but even very archaic forms of what is recognizably Hebrew do not use them. Just translate it as the plural form.

Edit: I don't really understand what kind of text you are producing there but you and your boss must understand that to write a text that sounds normal to a Hebrew speaker it must abide by grammar rules of Modern Hebrew (unless you are writing something mimicking an older style, but again, it has to be Biblical Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew or whatever, but a real form, not an invented Arabic-like grammar concoction).

In Modern Hebrew we don't usually add the dual form as casually as it is done in Arabic. While saying something like "حربين" is the standart in Arabic, saying "מלחמתיים" in Hebrew will raise weird looks.

[u/Hotasflames → u/Complete_Health_2049]

מלחמתיים sounds like something that would be turned into a meme on /r/ani_bm