. It’s also the word for a wreath or a garland. 
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /]יוֹם רָגִיל The Hebrew word for day is יום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /], while the word for regular is רגיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /]. Thus, a regular day is יום רגיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /]איך היה היום שלי? מה אני אגיד, היה יום רגיל. How was my day? What can (will) I say? It was a regular…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /]שְׁנוֹת הַשְּׁמוֹנִים While the Hebrew word for eight is שמונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /] (or שמונָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /] if what we’re counting are masculine nouns), eighty is שמונים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /]הוא צודק שמונים אחוז מהזמן. He’s right eighty percent of the time. The eighties is שנות השמונים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /] – literally, the years…
[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” /]…
לְשַרְיֵן First of all, a correction: The Modern Hebrew word for jet lag – יַעֶפֶת (yah-EH-fet) comes from the root י.ע.פ (y.a’.f), meaning flight. It doesn’t come from the acrobatic linguistic act I described the other day. Thanks for the tip, Larry. Now for today’s dose… The proper way of saying save me…