. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שביתה-1.m4a” /]שְׁבִיתָה With even the airport closing about once a year due to disgruntled employees, the word for strike is core vocabulary in Hebrew. The word is שביתה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שביתה-1.m4a” /]. You may recognize as its root the word שבת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שביתה-2.m4a” /] – the Sabbath: שבת is the day of rest, the day when the workers “go on strike.”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להעיר-#.m4a” /]לְהָעִיר The best-known meaning of the word להעיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להעיר-#.m4a” /], a הפעיל verb, is to wake someone up. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להעיר-#.m4a” /]דוד, תעיר אותי כשמגיעים. David, wake me up when we arrive. In this case, we use a form of the את[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להעיר-#.m4a” /] after להעיר – the word אותי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להעיר-#.m4a” /]…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/מכונה-#.m4a” /]מְכוֹנָה Machines didn’t exist in Biblical times – at least not enough of a variety of them to be lumped into a category and given a name. The word מכונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/מכונה-#.m4a” /] (which today means machine) did exist, but it referred to the base of permanent structure. So when it came time for the makers…
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