how to say “impressive” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/דרך-האינטרנט-1.m4a” /]דֶּרֶךְ הָאִינְטֶרְנֶט The Hebrew word דרך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/דרך-האינטרנט-2.m4a” /] means path or way, but it also means through. I can’t help but wonder whether through comes from דרך – look at how similar the sounds d and th are, and how the coarse guttural kh sound is how gh used to be pronounced in English. Look at the German durch meaning by, through: these English…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-1.m4a” /]תֵּן לִי, תָּבִיא לִי לתת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-2.m4a” /] means to give, so that תן לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-3.m4a” /] means give me when spoken to a male, and תני לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-4.m4a” /] means the same when spoken to a female. Another, informal way of saying give me is תביא לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-5.m4a” /] to a male and תביאי לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-6.m4a” /]…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רוח-מדברית-1.m4a” /]רוּחַ מִדְבָּרִית On these cold Jerusalem nights I dream of a draft from down south – רוח מדברית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רוח-מדברית-1.m4a” /] – a desert wind. In a Hebrew sentence: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רוח-מדברית-2.m4a” /]נושבת כאן רוח מדברית נעימה. A pleasant desert wind is blowing here. מדברית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רוח-מדברית-3.m4a” /] takes the word מדבר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רוח-מדברית-4.m4a” /] – desert – and adds…