הִצְטַנְּנוּת, הִתְקָרְרוּת, נָזֶּלֶת In Israel, as in the United States and probably everywhere else in the world, people catch the common cold all the time. I’ve caught it recently, as you might hear from the . Anyway, the cold is so common that it has three words in Hebrew. הִתְקָרְרוּת (heet-kah-reh-ROOT) comes from the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימון-1.m4a” /]מִמּוּן If you’re familiar with Christian literature, the word Mammon may ring a bell, as it represents greed. The word came to Hebrew via Aramaic and makes appearances in the Mishnah, where it substitutes Biblical-Hebrew כסף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימון-2.m4a” /] – literally silver but also money – and is spelled ממון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימון-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימון-4.m4a”…
מְקוֹמוֹת יָפִים Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you’ve got a bit of Hebrew under your belt, you likely know the word for place – מָקוֹם– whose root is ק.ו.מ (k.w.m) meaning getting up (a place is situated somewhere, as if it were made to stand in that location). מקום is a masculine word, so that a nice…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/לדאוג-ל-#.m4a” /]לִדְאֹג ל- The basic Hebrew word for to take care of or to treat is -לטפל ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/לדאוג-ל-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/לדאוג-ל-#.m4a” /]טיפלת בבעיה ברכב? Have you taken care of the problem in your (the) car? There’s another expression for taking care, one that means literally to worry for, implying concern and taking responsibility…
מַהֵר, מָהִיר Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you’ve got some basic Hebrew down, you likely know the word for fast or quickly – מַהֵר , for example: הַמְּכוֹנִית נוֹסַעַת מַהֵר. The car drives (travels) fast. Now, that’s fast as an adverb, describing an action such as the driving or traveling of the car. But if you want to…