how to say “populated” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? נִקּוּי יָבֵשׁ Check out our spring and summer courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Most of the cleaning that people tend to do for Passover involves water and other fluids. But some of the cleaning many people do does not involve wet substances at all. Dry cleaning is…
אָרֹךְ Can’t read Hebrew yet? The basic Hebrew word for long, when describing a masculine object, is אָרֹךְ . For example: מִלְחָמָה וְשָׁלוֹם הוּא סֵפֶר אָרֹךְ מְאֹד. War and Peace is a very long book. When describing something other than a single masculine object, the word changes…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מוצלח-1.m4a” /]מֻצְלָח If you’ve got basic Hebrew down, you’re likely familiar with the active-causative verb for to succeed – להצליח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מוצלח-2.m4a” /]. It appears in Hebrew literature for the first time in the Torah portion to be read this week, where no matter how much he’s thrown into pits and tossed around as a slave, Joseph ends up…
קָרְבָּן Can’t read Hebrew yet? Today, not much animal sacrifice is going on in Israel or elsewhere in the world. So the term that once referred to sacrificing an animal – קָרְבָּן – has been revived to refer to a person being “sacrificed” by circumstances – a victim. For example: …
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חזאות-1.m4a” /]מֶטֶאוֹרוֹלוֹגְיָה, חַזָּאוּת As with other sciences, Hebrew uses the international word for meteorology (weather forecasting): מטאורולוגיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חזאות-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חזאות-3.m4a” /]היא הלכה ללמוד מטאורולוגיה באוניברסיטה העברית. She went to study meteorology at the Hebrew University. But there’s also a proper Hebrew term: חזאות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חזאות-4.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חזאות-5.m4a” /]המילה “מטאורולוגיה”, בעברית…