how to say “billboard” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 7, 2022July 7, 2022

If you’ll be in Jerusalem in August, don’t miss חוצות היוצר
– the Artist’s Colony fair, where you’ll find artwork from around the world as well as concerts by some of Israel’s rock stars.

חוצות
isn’t exactly a colony – the word refers to the outdoors in a poetic sense (בחוץ
is outdoors or outside in the everyday sense). And היוצר
means the creator in the artistic sense (not in the exclusively divine sense – that’s הבורא
).

The word for sign is שלט
, so שלט חוצות
is a sign in the outdoors – or a billboard.

For example:

יש שלטי חוצות ענקיים תלויים לאורך נתיבי האיילון.

There are gigantic billboards posted along the Ayalon Highway.

how to say “to bridge gaps” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger April 4, 2013November 27, 2024

having trouble seeing the print? לְגַשֵּׁר פְּעָרִים Hebrew Class Starts Sunday In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv! You may be familiar with the Hebrew word for a bridge – גֶּשֶׁר. Activating the word as a verb (of the active-intensive פִּעֵל variety), Modern Hebrew has created a word for the metaphoric concept of bridging or to bridge – לְגַשֵּׁר. It also means to mediate. For example:…

daily video – how to say “hallucination” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 24, 2021March 23, 2021

To slow down the audio or to turn on captions (CC), start playing the video and then click the settings icon ⚙️. LEARNING TIPS Hebrew beginners Watch with English captions a few times, then with Hebrew captions, then without captions, and see what you understand. Intermediate learners Watch without captions, pausing to write down what...

daily video – how to say “looks good on camera” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger June 21, 2020January 30, 2021

To slow down the audio, start playing the video and then click the settings icon at the bottom-right of the video and change the playback speed. תמליל של הכתוביות בעברית אהלן חברים יקרים הביטוי היום, שכתבתי עליו בפוסט, הוא - עובר מסך וכתבתי שם שהביטוי הוא עברי אותנטי שלא כמו פוטוגני שהוא כמו photogenic אבל...

how to say “(phone) extension” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger August 5, 2015October 23, 2018

שְׁלוּחָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שלוחה-1.mp3″ /] One of the key terms in a phone directory is extension – in Hebrew, שלוחה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שלוחה-1.mp3″ /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שלוחה-2.mp3″ /]נא המתינו להעברת השיחה לשלוחה. Please wait for the call to be transferred to the extension. (the standard recording you might have heard has a female voice) The word שלוחה comes from…

how to say “to feed” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger August 17, 2014September 30, 2024

לְהַאֲכִיל Can’t read Hebrew yet? Since the topics in this week’s Torah portion tend to revolve around food, I’ll dedicate this week’s entries to that favorite pastime – eating. To eat is לֶאֱכוֹל . The root is א.כ.ל (a.k.l), and it’s a simple verb. Plugging that root into the causative verb form, we get,…

how to say “to be persistent” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 21, 2021March 18, 2021

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להתמיד-#.m4a” /]לְהַתְמִיד להתמיד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להתמיד-#.m4a” /] means to be persistent or to do something regularly. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להתמיד-#.m4a” /]היא מתמידה לבוא לחדר הכושר. She comes to the gym regularly. להתמיד is a הפעיל verb. Its root, ת.מ.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להתמיד-#.m4a” /], comes from the word תמיד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להתמיד-#.m4a” /] – always. Its verbal noun – התמדה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להתמיד-#.m4a” /] –…

If you’ll be in Jerusalem in August, don’t miss חוצות היוצר – the Artist’s Colony fair, where you’ll find artwork from around the world as well as concerts by some of Israel’s rock stars.

חוצות isn’t exactly a colony – the word refers to the outdoors in a poetic sense (בחוץ is outdoors or outside in the everyday sense). And היוצר means the creator in the artistic sense (not in the exclusively divine sense – that’s הבורא).

The word for sign is שלט, so שלט חוצות is a sign in the outdoors – or a billboard.