how to say “to snuggle” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/השפה-הארמית-#.m4a” /]הַשָּׂפָה הָאֲרָמִית Languages borrow from each other, especially ones like Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, which are (or were, anyway) spoken in neighboring lands. So it should come as no surprise that a bit of Aramaic appears in the Torah, where Jacob (grandson of Abraham the Hebrew) calls the pile of stones meant to…
מְבַדֵּחַ There are a few words for entertaining in Hebrew. There’s מְבַדֵּר (meh-vah-DEHR), coming from the more common word, בִּדּוּר (bee-DOOR). There’s מַצְחִיק (mahts-KHEEK), meaning funny. There’s מְשַׁעְשֵׁע (meh-shah-ah-SHEH-ah), meaning amusing (I did an entry on משעשע this past January). Here’s a word that doesn’t get used as often as the others… except for Purim. On Israeli radio…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/שביר-#.m4a” /]שָׁבִיר The Hebrew word for to break is the simple verb לשבור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/שביר-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/שביר-#.m4a” /]אני לא שברתי את הקערה! I didn’t break the bowl! Something breakable – or fragile – is שביר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/שביר-#.m4a” /], a word of the same root as לשבור. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/שביר-#.m4a” /]ספלים מחרסינה הם שבירים ביותר. Porcelain…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/קורץ-לי-#.m4a” /]בָּא לִי, קוֹרֵץ לִי Instead of אני רוצֶה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/קורץ-לי-#.m4a” /] (I want – m) or אני רוצָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/קורץ-לי-#.m4a” /] (I want – f), you’re likely to hear Israeli kids saying בא לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/קורץ-לי-#.m4a” /] – I feel like, or literally it comes to me, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/קורץ-לי-#.m4a” /]בא לי עוגה. I feel like (having)…