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how to say “password” in Hebrew
סִיסְמָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday’s dose introduced the Hebrew term for username – שם משתמש . But a username isn’t enough to get into a membership site. You need a password too. The Hebrew word for password is סִיסְמָה . It’s the same word as slogan. סיסמה first appeared in…
how to say “water park” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/פארק-מים-#.m4a” /]פַּארְק מַיִם The Hebrew term for water park is simple enough: פארק מים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/פארק-מים-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/פארק-מים-#.m4a” /]עבור ילדים, פארק מים הוא כמו בריכת שחייה משודרגת. For kids, a water park is like an upgraded swimming pool. פארק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/פארק-מים-#.m4a” /], of course, comes from English. A properly-Hebrew word of a similar meaning…
how to say “just kidding” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /]סְתָם To joke around, in Hebrew, is להתבדח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /], while I’m joking is אני צוחק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] if you’re a male and אני צוחקת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] if you’re a female. Both צוחק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] and צוחקת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] are forms of the simple verb לצחוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /], which means literally to laugh….
how to say “openness” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? פְּתִיחוּת What’s your level of conversational Hebrew? Correction to last entry: The Hebrew word for stability – יציבות – should be vocalized this way: יַצִּיבוּת (yah-tsee-VOOT), not יְצִיבוּת (yeh-tsee-VOOT). Thank you, David G, for pointing that out. Today’s entry: יוֹם כִּפּוּר – Yom Kippur – (yohm kee-POOR) is a time of…
how to say “a painting”in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ציור-1.m4a” /]צִיּור The Hebrew word for to draw is the active-intensive פיעל verb לצייר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ציור-2.m4a” /]. It comes from the root צ.י.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ציור-6.m4a” /], the same as that of צורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ציור-7.m4a” /] – form. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ציור-3.m4a” /]הוא נורא אוהב לצייר. He really likes to draw. A drawing or a painting is ציור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ציור-1.m4a” /]. For…
how to say “I’ve got all I really need” in Hebrew
לְהִסְתַּפֵּק Over the past couple of days we’ve seen words from the root ס.פ.ק (s.p.k), meaning, enough or satisfaction. Today’s word doesn’t have a literal translation in English. It means, roughly, to have enough or to make due. The word is the התפעל (heet-pah-EL) form of the root, namely, לְהִסְתַּפֵּק (leh-hees-tah-PEK). A well-known saying from the Ethics of…