how to say “big fat lie” in Hebrew

  גֹּדֶל, מִדָּה  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     If you’ve got some basic Hebrew down, you know that the word for big is גָּדוֹל  listen and repeat for a masculine object such as a book, and גְּדוֹלָה  listen and repeat for a feminine object such as a shirt.    Size – or bigness – is גֹּדֶל  listen…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/משעמם-לי-#.m4a” /]מְשַׁעֲמֵם לִי You may know the Hebrew word for boring – משעמם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/משעמם-לי-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/משעמם-לי-#.m4a” /]איזה סרט משעמם! What a boring movie! To say I’m bored, you’d literally say it’s boring for me; משעמם לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/משעמם-לי-#.m4a” /]. Likewise, you’re bored is משעמם לך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/משעמם-לי-#.m4a” /] to a male, משעמם לך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/משעמם-לי-#.m4a” /] to a…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /]תְּכֵלֶת כחול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /] is the common word for blue, but Israelis often use תכלת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /] to refer to particularly graceful things like the sea and the sky. תכלת is azure – basically sky blue. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /]יש לה עיניים יפות, בצבע תכלת. She has beautiful eyes, of the color sky blue….