how to say “the news” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? חֻפְשָׁה In honor of Passover, I’m taking a vacation – a חֻפְשָׁה. This will be the last dose of Hebrew before next Sunday. חופשה is related to the word for liberty – חֹפֶשׁ (KHOH-fesh), which is often used colloquially to mean vacation or holiday. (in the leisure sense) חַג…
לְהִתְפָּרֵעַ Can’t read Hebrew yet? For the Jews it’s been Passover, and for students around the world it’s been spring break. As parting advice for the latter, parents might tell their son: תַּעֲשֶׂה חַיִּים, אָבָל אַל תִּתְפָּרֵעַ יוֹתֵר מִדַּי. Have a good time (literally, make life), but don’t go too…
having trouble seeing the print? הוֹצָאוֹת Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat I bet some of you guessed that the Hebrew word for expenses would be some kind of declension of the word for expensive – יָקָר (yah-KAHR). Sorry to disappoint. Rather, the word for expenses comes from the active-causative הפעיל verb…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כנראה-1.mp3″ /]כַּנִּרְאֶה People in Israel have gone back to school and work. Apparently, Passover is over. The Hebrew word for apparently is כַּנִּרְאֶה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כנראה-1.mp3″ /] – literally, as appears or as is seen. It is also used to mean it looks as if or it’s likely that. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כנראה-2.mp3″ /]כַּנִּרְאֶה שֶׁהֵם יָבֹאוּ לְבַקֵּר בַּשָּׁבוּעַ הַבָּא. It looks like they’ll come…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-בא-לי-1.m4a” /]לֹא בָּא לִי I don’t want, in Hebrew, is אני לא רוצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-בא-לי-2.m4a” /] (spoken by a male) or אני לא רוצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-בא-לי-3.m4a” /] (spoken by a female). But what about I don’t feel like it? That’s לא בא לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-בא-לי-1.m4a” /] – literally, it doesn’t come to me. This expression works for both males…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-יאומן-1.m4a” /]לֹא יְאֻמָּן, לֹא יֵאָמֵן To believe – in Hebrew – is להאמין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-יאומן-2.m4a” /], an active-causative הפעיל verb. It would follow, then, that unbelievable would be לא יואמן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-יאומן-3.m4a” /], as יואמן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-יאומן-4.m4a” /] is of the passive-causative הופעל form. But what most Israelis say is לא יאומן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-יאומן-5.m4a” /], where יאומן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-יאומן-6.m4a” /]…