how to say “joy” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/משתרע-#.m4a” /]מִשְׂתָּרֵעַ In English, we talk about a sprawling metropolis – a really big city area. In Hebrew, we use the verb להשתרע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/משתרע-#.m4a” /] – to span or to sprawl, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/משתרע-#.m4a” /]נתב”ג טרמינל שלוש משתרע על פני אלף שלוש מאות מטר רבוע. Ben Gurion Airport Terminal 3 spans thirteen hundred square meters. The…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/שופט-1-#.m4a” /]שׁוֹפֵט The Hebrew word for referee is the same as the one for judge – שופט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/שופט-1-#.m4a” /] (or שופטת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/שופט-1-#.m4a” /] if the referee/judge is female). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/שופט-1-#.m4a” /]השופט פסל אותו מלשחק. The referee disqualified him from playing.

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שוקיים-1.m4a” /]שׁוקָיִם In this post I’m not discussing the kind of calf that grazes – that’s an עגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שוקיים-2.m4a” /]. Rather, I’m following yesterday’s post about the upper-body limb, moving now to the lower. רגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שוקיים-3.m4a” /] is the word that refers to the whole leg and foot, from the pelvis downward. But just as English…