Folk song, performed by Avner Gadassi
באנו חושך לגרש,
בידינו אור ואש.
כל אחד הוא אור קטן,
וכולנו אור איתן.
סורה חושך, הלאה שחור!
סורה מפני האור!
We’ve come to expel darkness,
In our hands are light and fire.
Each person is a small light,
And all of us a great light.
Go away darkness, away, obscurity!
Make way for the light!
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היא-עתידה-ל-1.m4a” /]הִיא עֲתִידָה לְ… Modern Hebrew’s future tense works with verbs. Some examples: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היא-עתידה-ל-2.m4a” /]הוא יתקשר. He will call. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היא-עתידה-ל-3.m4a” /]היא תדבר איתו. She’ll speak with him. But there’s also a special word for will (do) – a bit more literary than what you’d use in the average conversation, but still good to…
having trouble seeing the print? כָּל יוֹמַיִם, כָּל שֵׁנִי וַחֲמִישִׁי listen highly recommended for further vocabulary growth The literal meaning of every other day in English is every two days. Its Hebrew equivalent is כָּל יוֹמָיִם listen. But there’s another meaning, one seldom used, to the expression every other day as well, more along the lines of all the time or…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/באופן-מפתיע-1.m4a” /]בְּאֹפֶן מַפְתִּיעַ You may know the Hebrew word for a surprise – הפתעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/באופן-מפתיע-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/באופן-מפתיע-3.m4a” /]עשינו לו מסיבת הפתעה. We made him a surprise party. הפתעה comes from the active-causative הפעיל verb להפתיע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/באופן-מפתיע-5.m4a” /] – to surprise, so that surprising is מפתיע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/באופן-מפתיע-6.m4a” /]. One way to add the equivalent of -ly to Hebrew…
קָהָל listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for audience is quite an ancient one, as Moses would address the audience – הַקָּהָל listen and repeat – of the wandering People of Israel for forty years in the desert. A modern example: הַקָּהָל מַקְשִׁיב. The audience is listening. listen The…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-1.m4a” /]פַּח The common Modern Hebrew word for garbage or rubbish is זבל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-3.m4a” /]דני, תוציא את הזבל! Danny, take out the garbage! But historically, זבל referred specifically to fertilizer of animal droppings. The more generic term for waste, from Biblical times and on, is אשפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-4.m4a” /]. Then there’s פח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-1.m4a” /], which…