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how to say “to infiltrate” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִסְתַּנֵּן Online Level 1 Hebrew Discount Deadline TODAY! In the Israeli news recently there has been a lot of talk about refugees and others from Africa illegally crossing the Egyptian border into Israel seeking asylum and work. The word used in the Hebrew media to describe these…
Useful Hebrew words inspired by the Passover Haggadah
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /]מילה שימושית בעברית מודרנית Useful Word in Modern Hebrew [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /]סימני הסדר The Seder Contents להקדיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /] – to dedicate The root ק.ד.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /] means holy, and something holy is unique, set aside. To dedicate is להקדיש, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /]אני מקדיש לכם את השיר הזה. I dedicate to…
how to say “to listen” in Hebrew – two ways
להקשיב, להאזין The most common word for to listen in Hebrew is לְהַקְשִׁיב. For example, אֲנִי מַקְשִׁיב לְךָ, חָבֵר (ah-NEE mahk-SHEEV leh-KHAH hah-VEHR) means I’m listening to you, friend, when both the speaker and the friend are male. קֶשֶׁב (KEH-shev), with the same root as להקשיב, means attention. Another word is לְהַאֲזִין (leh-hah-ah-ZEEN). If…
how to say “board’ (not “bored”, “board”) in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? לוּחַ Tradition has it that חַג הַשָּׁבֻעוֹת– the Shavuot festival – marks the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. And the Torah – הַתּוֹרָה– was given on tablets – not the kind you swallow (that’s a כַּדּוּר), but the kind made of stone. The word the תורה uses for tablets is…
how to say “a letter” (as opposed to “a tweet”) in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/מכתב-1.m4a” /]מִכְתָּב A letter such as that belonging to the first word you’re reading now (n), in Hebrew, is אות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/מכתב-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/מכתב-3.m4a” /]כמה אותיות יש באלפבית העברי? How many letters are there in the Hebrew alphabet? (The answer is 22 plus 5 ending letters.) Then there’s a letter that used to be handwritten…
how to say “hammock” in Hebrew
ערסל It’s hot in Jerusalem… and probably in Tel Aviv as well. These are the days when hammocks could be useful… in the late afternoon, in the shade, if the air conditioning isn’t working. Here’s the word for hammock in Hebrew: עַרְסָל (ahr-SAHL). It comes from the Biblical Hebrew word for…