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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/בשר-נא-#.m4a” /]בָּשָׂר נָא A raw vegetable in Hebrew is ירק טרי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/בשר-נא-#.m4a” /] (fresh vegetable) or ירק חי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/בשר-נא-#.m4a” /] (“live” vegetable).  Raw meat is often called בשר חי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/בשר-נא-#.m4a” /], but there’s also a special term for it – בשר נא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/בשר-נא-#.m4a” /]. This also means rare meat, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/בשר-נא-#.m4a” /]הוא אוהב את…

  שְׂפָתַיִם  listen and repeat 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  listen and repeat, lips.   For example:   יֵשׁ לָהּ שְׂפָתַיִם אֲדֻמּוֹת. She has red lips.  listen    Why…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכוי-קלוש-#.m4a” /]סִיכּוּי קָלוּשׁ To say there’s a slim chance that something will happen, use סיכוי קלוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכוי-קלוש-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכוי-קלוש-#.m4a” /]סיכוי קלוש שהיוגורט ישרוד שעתיים בחוץ. Slim chance that the yogurt will survive two hours outdoors. קלוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכוי-קלוש-#.m4a” /] – flimsy, dilute – first appears in Mishnaic Hebrew.

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/להציל-1.m4a” /]לְהַצִּיל You may know the Hebrew word for lifeguard – מציל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/להציל-2.m4a” /] for a male and מצילה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/להציל-3.m4a” /] for a female. Literally, these mean no less than savior. They derive from the active-causative הפעיל verb להציל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/להציל-1.m4a” /] – to rescue. The root of להציל is נ.צ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/להציל-4.m4a” /] meaning deliverance. For example: [audioclip…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ארמון-#.m4a” /]אַרְמוֹן The Hebrew word for palace is ארמון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ארמון-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ארמון-#.m4a” /]מה נראה לכם, שאני גר בארמון? שיש לי מטוס פרטי? What do you guys think, that I live in a palace? That I have a private jet? Though it appears in Biblical Hebrew, the word ארמון probably originates in…