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how to say “remove me!” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/תסירו-אותי-#.m4a” /]תָּסִירוּ אוֹתִי! At the bottom of every marketing email that respects itself is a link that in English says something to the effect of unsubscribe. In Hebrew, that word is usually הסר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/תסירו-אותי-#.m4a” /] – literally, remove. הסר is an imperative (command) version of the word להסיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/תסירו-אותי-#.m4a” /] – to remove. Here’s להסיר in a different…
how to say “getting to know each other” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /]הֶכֵּרוּת While English has one basic word for to know, Hebrew has two: לדעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /] and להכיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /]. And while לדעת, in Modern Hebrew, means to know information, להכיר means to know a person or to be familiar with someone or something. Thus getting to know each other is היכרות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a”…
how to say “number” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-1.m4a” /]מִסְפָּר If you’ve got some basic Hebrew under your belt, you probably know the word for number – מספר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-2.m4a” /]מה מספר הטלפון שלך? What’s your (a female’s) phone number? But you may not have realized that מספר is related to storytelling – סיפור סיפורים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-3.m4a” /]. Unlike אבטיח[audioclip…
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how to say “to be witness” in Hebrew
לִנְכוֹחַ To bear witness in the legal sense is לְהָעִיד. It’s a technical term. But to be witness to an event, such as those that took place in 1967, is to overpowered by their magic. It’s to be present at such an event – לִנְכוֹח (leen-KHOH-ahkh). I was not yet born in 1967,…