how to say “to run for office” in Hebrew
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לָרוּץ
English describes an election campaign as a race. While Hebrew sometimes uses the equivalent – מֵרוּץ (meh-ROOTS – see yesterday’s entry), more often you’ll find Israelis talking simply about הַבְּחִירוֹת – the elections (hah-beh-khee-ROHT).
The act of running for office, however, borrows the metaphor from English, so that in Hebrew you might say:
הִיא רָצָה לְרָאשׁוּת הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה.
She is running for the prime-minister-ship (the political equivalent of the American presidency).
(hee RAH-tsah leh-rah-SHOOT hah-MEM-shah-LAH)
לָרוּץ (lah-ROOTS) means to run – for office, in a race and to the supermarket. It is an active-simple פעל verb.
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