how to say “to snuggle” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? סֵפֶר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי בְּחִנָּם חֲנֻכָּה and Thanksgiving are times of joy and giving. This year, as a way of spreading awareness about Hebrew and this Daily Dose, I’m giving away my brand-new ebook, Hebrew Described, to you and your friends and family. It’s a collection of Hebrew adjectives…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/דמי-חנוכה-#.m4a” /]דְּמֵי חְנוּכָּה The Yiddish word געלט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/דמי-חנוכה-#.m4a” /] (in German it’s Geld) means money. It’s not hard to see that this word is related to the English gold. This custom of giving children money on Hannukah (or chocolate money in golden wrapping), known to English speakers as Hannukah gelt, is to the Israeli child דמי…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתחזק-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְחַזֵּק If you’ve got some basic Hebrew under your belt, you may know the word for strong – חזק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתחזק-2.m4a” /]. For example (in the feminine): [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתחזק-3.m4a” /]יש פה רוח חזקה מאוד. There’s a very strong wind here. חזק, a three-letter word, functions as a root, produces several other words such as להחזיק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתחזק-5.m4a” /]…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-1.m4a” /]נַעֲלֵי רִיצָה, נַעֲלֵי סְפּוֹרְט If you’ve got some basic Hebrew, you probably know the word for shoes – נעליים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-2.m4a” /]. But there are different types of shoes, such as נעלי ריקוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-3.m4a” /] – dancing shoes, נעלי ריצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-4.m4a” /] – running shoes and נעלי טניס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-5.m4a” /] – tennis shoes. Israelis are likely to call any…
having trouble seeing the print? מִבְזָק When I said this term meant news flash this morning to Adam on RustyMike Radio, he said, “I haven’t heard that in a while.” Indeed, the English version of Ynet (the Hebrew is ynet.co.il) renders מִבְזָקִים (meev-zah-KEEM) as updates instead of news flashes. I guess I translated מִבְזָק (meev-ZAHK)…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]לֹא הָיָה וְלֹא נִבְרָא To express that something never took place, you could say זה אף פעם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] or זה מעולם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]. But Hebrew has a more special expression for this: לא היה ולא נברא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] – literally, it was not and was never created. For…