listen and repeat – to describe.having trouble seeing the print? שֵׁם, מוֹנִיטִין Vocabulary builder for the 2013 Israel elections this week’s video! Since the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world is שְׁמוֹת – names of, I thought it appropriate to introduce another important word related the common word, name – שֵׁם. A reputation in English can also be called…
להתגלח, לגלח Tonight I visited my סַבְתָּא (SAHV-tah) – grandmother – in Tel Aviv. She asked me whether I shave every day, to which I replied in the negative. So, in Hebrew, there’s to shave, and to shave something. To shave – that is, without an object – is לְהִתְגַּלֵּח (le-heet-gah-LEH-ahkh). For example, אֲנִי לֹא…
סַפִּיר listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for sapphire is very similar to that of the English: סַפִּיר listen and repeat. The word goes back to early human history, as does the value of this precious stone. For example: קָנִיתִי לָהּ שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת סַפִּירִים. I bought her a…
שידור The word שִׁדּוּר (shee-DOOR) means a broadcast, like the kind done over TV or the radio. A שידור חָי (shee-DOOR KHAH-ee) is a live broadcast. לְשַׁדֵּר (le-shah-DEHR) means to broadcast. It follows the same grammatical structure as לְדַבֵּר (le-dah-BEHR) – notice that the two words have the same vowel points. And…
לִשְׂמוֹחַ listen to this word pronounced Today was Purim in Jerusalem, so I’m just getting around to the word of the day now. You’ve all got the benefit of reading the product of my imagination as I’m sobering up – almost there, but not quite. In English, emotional reactions are typically adjectives…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/להיפגע-#.m4a” /]לְהִיפָּגַע The basic Hebrew word for pain is כאב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/להיפגע-#.m4a” /], while to hurt is the simple verb לכאוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/להיפגע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/להיפגע-#.m4a” /]כואב לי הראש. My head hurts (me). To hurt someone else or to cause pain is להכאיב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/להיפגע-#.m4a” /], a הפיעל verb. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/להיפגע-#.m4a” /]למה אתה מכאיב לי?…