how to say “mixed feelings” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-1.m4a” /]רְגָשׁוֹת מְעֹרָבִים

If you’ve taken our Level 2 course, you know the Hebrew word for to feel – להרגיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-2.m4a” /].

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-3.m4a” /]איך את מרגישה היום?

How are you (a female) feeling today?

The root of this active-causative verb is ר.ג.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-4.m4a” /], which also forms the word for feeling or emotion – רגש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-5.m4a” /].

רגש is a masculine noun, even though in the plural it has a traditionally-feminine ending: רגשות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-6.m4a” /]. Thus mixed feelings are רגשות מעורבים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-1.m4a” /].

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רגשות-מעורבים-7.m4a” /]לגבי הטיול, יש לי רגשות מוערבים.

I have mixed feelings about the trip.

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