שֵׁרוּתִים, חֲדַר אַמְבַּטְיָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שירותים-1.mp3″ /] This post elaborates on an earlier one. To Americans, the bathroom is where people do what they need to do. Sometimes it has a bathtub in it, sometimes it doesn’t. But to people from the Commonwealth, a bathroom is only called such if it has a tub, while the toilet is the room with an…
Back in June, I introduced the word for authority, as in the Palestinian Authority: רָשׁוּת (rah-SHOOT). So today’s entry isn’t entirely new, since you may already have the word רשות well integrated in your Hebrew vocabulary. Rather, today I’d like to introduce you to a specialized usage of this word, one that you’re…
מְאֻכְלָס Can’t read Hebrew yet? Population in Hebrew is אֻכְלוּסִיָּה , derived from the Greek word for masses. Populated or inhabited is מְאֻכְלָס , as in: הָאִי הַהוּא אֵינוֹ מְאֻכְלָס. That island is not inhabited. A synonym for inhabited is מְיֻשָּׁב . מאוכלס is an adjective derived from the passive-intensive…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אתה-חי-בסרט-1.m4a” /]אַתָּה חַי בְּסֶרֶט Someone makes you an offer that in their mind you can’t refuse – but you can, and easily. You might say to them, “dream on” (well, in the 90’s you might have), indicating that they’re are living in a dream world and are totally wrong in their judgment. A Hebrew…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מתמטיקה-#.m4a” /]מָתֶמָטִיקָה Yesterday we saw that one of the meaning of the word חשבון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מתמטיקה-#.m4a” /] is arithmetic, which comes from the authentic Hebrew root ח.ש.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מתמטיקה-#.m4a” /] meaning thinking. Unlike חשבון, the word for math in general is the international one: מתמטיקה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מתמטיקה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מתמטיקה-#.m4a” /]הנושא הראשון שלומדים במתמטיקה הוא חשבון. The first…