how to say “a Hebrew speaker” in Hebrew
דּוֹבֵר עִבְרִית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-1.mp3″ /]
One of the first words you’ll learn in a conversational-Hebrew course is some form of the active-intensive verb לְדַבֵּר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-2.mp3″ /] – to speak.
When reading literary texts, you may come across a simple form of that word, as in the Biblical verse:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-3.mp3″ /]כֵּן בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד דֹּבְרֹת. ([audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-4.mp3″ /]בַּמִּדְבָּר כ”ז)
Rightly do the daughters of Zelophehad speak. (Numbers 27)
This simple form also serves as the word for a speaker – דּוֹבֵר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-5.mp3″ /] when referring to a male, and דּוֹבֶרֶת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-6.mp3″ /] when referring to a female.
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דובר-7.mp3″ /]הִיא דּוֹבֶרֶת עִבְרִית.
She is an Hebrew speaker.
דובר and דוברת also mean spokesperson.
