[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-נורא-1.m4a” /]לֹא נוֹרָא Earlier this week we encountered the word נורא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-נורא-2.m4a” /], which means awesome or awful, depending on the context. But when Israelis say לא נורא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-נורא-1.m4a” /], they definitely mean not awful… or, in the English equivalent, no big deal. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-נורא-3.m4a” /]אז שכחת פעם אחת את התיק בבית, לא נורא! So you…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כשל-1.m4a” /]כֶּשֶׁל, כִּשָּׁלוֹן Hebrew has one word for to fail – the nifal verb להיכשל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כשל-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כשל-3.m4a” /]הוא נכשל במבחן. He failed (in) the test. A failure, however, has more than one word: while כשל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כשל-4.m4a” /] refers to a failure as in a lapse or simply a fail, such as a כשל מכני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כשל-5.m4a” /] – a mechanical…
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