how to say “childish” in Hebrew
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יַלְדּוּתִי
The Hebrew word for child – probably related to the English word – is יֶלֶד (YEH-led) for a male and יַלְדָּה (yahl-DAH).
Words that in English have -hood, -ism, etc, at the end of the word, in Hebrew typically have an וּת– (oot) ending. So childhood is יַלְדּוּת (yahl-DOOT).
Childish, seeming like a child or as if in childhood, is יַלְדּוּתִי (yahl-doo-TEE).
For example:
הַסֵפֶר נֶחְמָד אָבָל הַתֹּכֶן קְצַת יַלְדּוּתִי.
The book is cute (nice) but the content is a bit childish.
(hah-SEH-fehr nekh-MAHD ah-VAHL hah-TOH-khen keh-TSAT yahl-doo-TEE)
The English word childlike, however, has a more positive connotation that childish. To mean childlike, Hebrew usually uses תָּמִים in the masculine, literally, innocent (tah-MEEM), and תְּמִימָה (teh-mee-MAH) in the feminine.
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