THIS WEEK’S VIDEO DOSE OF HEBREW – how to say “bon apetit!”
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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מאבטח-1.m4a” /]מְאַבְטֵחַ The Hebrew word for to guard or to keep is לשמור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מאבטח-2.m4a” /]. And indeed, שומר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מאבטח-3.m4a” /] (for a male) or שומרת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מאבטח-4.m4a” /] (for a female) could refer to the person doing their best to make sure we’re safe at the mall or at the synagogue. But the better term is מאבטח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מאבטח-1.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לזוז-הצידה-1.m4a” /]לָזוּז הַצִּדָּה If you’ve got some basic Hebrew down, you know the word for house or home – בית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לזוז-הצידה-2.m4a” /]. You probably also know a special directional word for home – הביתה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לזוז-הצידה-3.m4a” /] as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לזוז-הצידה-4.m4a” /]הם רוצים ללכת הביתה. They want to go home. Here Hebrew takes the word בית and puts the letter ה[audioclip…
A narrator is someone who reads or calls out a storyline. To read or to call out, in Hebrew, is לִקְרוֹא (leek-ROH). Likewise, to tell a story is לְסַפֵּר (le-sah-PEHR). A narrator or an announcer (such as on the radio) is a קַרְיָן (kahr-YAHN) for a male, and a קַרְיָנִית (kahr-yah-NEET) for a female. By contrast, the narrator voice in a story…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/חמאה-#.m4a” /]חֶמְאָה In biblical times, חמאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/חמאה-#.m4a” /] referred to curds or leben. Today it refers to butter: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/חמאה-#.m4a” /]דודה שלי מכינה חמאה ביתית! My aunt makes homemade butter! I’m guessing that חמאה is called such because separating curds from whey (going back to the biblical חמאה) requires heat – חום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/חמאה-#.m4a” /]. The…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עצמות-#.m4a” /]עֲצָמוֹת The Hebrew word for bone is עצם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עצמות-#.m4a” /], while more than one bone is עצמות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עצמות-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עצמות-#.m4a” /]כמה עצמות יש בגוף האדם? How many bones are there in the human body? and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עצמות-#.m4a” /]העצמות האלה יבשים. These bones are dry. Now, why does a masculine word like עצם…