how to say “rose” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משמעותי-1.m4a” /]מַשְׁמָעוּתִי The Hebrew word משמעות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משמעותי-2.m4a” /] – significance – comes from the word משמע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משמעותי-3.m4a” /], which means meaning. משמע itself comes from the root ש.מ.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משמעותי-4.m4a” /] meaning hearing: an idea becomes meaningful when we first hear it (or see it in print, now that most Westerners can read) – only then can we internalize it. For example,…

  שְׂפָתַיִם   Can’t read Hebrew yet?     Yesterday we saw examples of things that come in pairs, and that they get a special ah-yeem ending in Hebrew.   Here’s another example – שְׂפָתַיִם   , lips.   For example:   יֵשׁ לָהּ שְׂפָתַיִם אֲדֻמּוֹת. She has red lips.     Why the doubling ending?…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/רצון-#.m4a” /]רָצוֹן, תְּשׁוּקָה, חֵשֶׁק If you enter the word desire into Google Translate for Hebrew, you’ll find no less than eleven translations. I’ll focus here on three: רצון, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/רצון-#.m4a” /]תשוקה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/רצון-#.m4a” /] and חשק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/רצון-#.m4a” /]. 1. רצון means desire in the sense of wanting or willing something. It comes from לרצות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/רצון-#.m4a” /], the simple verb for…