having trouble seeing the print? צִנְצֶנֶת Further build your Hebrew vocabulary with… Jelly-Bean tasting Manna? In the Torah portion to be read tomorrow by Jews around the world, Moses instructs Aaron to place a sample of the Manna fallen from heaven into some kind of receptacle (probably a saucer), for future generations of the Children of Israel…
שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for chain (Biblical as well as Modern) is שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת . Say it out loud a few times. As a chain is a string of connected loops (לוּלָאוֹת ), the word שרשרת itself conveys a sense of pieces being connected to one another – with two instances of שׁר…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/לבוא-בדרישות-#.m4a” /]לָבוֹא בִּדְרִישׁוֹת To demand or to require something in Hebrew is the simple verb לדרוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/לבוא-בדרישות-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/לבוא-בדרישות-#.m4a” /]בעבודה דורשים ממני להישאר שעות נוספות. At work they are requiring of me to stay extra hours. But no one likes being demanded of to do things. So here’s an expression that can be…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היא-עתידה-ל-1.m4a” /]הִיא עֲתִידָה לְ… Modern Hebrew’s future tense works with verbs. Some examples: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היא-עתידה-ל-2.m4a” /]הוא יתקשר. He will call. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היא-עתידה-ל-3.m4a” /]היא תדבר איתו. She’ll speak with him. But there’s also a special word for will (do) – a bit more literary than what you’d use in the average conversation, but still good to…