how to say “vacation” in Hebrew
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In honor of Passover, I’m taking a vacation – a חֻפְשָׁה. This will be the last dose of Hebrew before next Sunday.

having trouble seeing the print?
In honor of Passover, I’m taking a vacation – a חֻפְשָׁה. This will be the last dose of Hebrew before next Sunday.

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חללית-1.m4a” /]חֲלָלִית Yesterday we saw that חלל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חללית-2.m4a” /] means space, and החלל החיצון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חללית-3.m4a” /] means outer space. I gave the example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חללית-4.m4a” /]אריק תמיד רצה לנסוע לחלל החיצון. Arik has always wanted to go to outer space. But how would he get there? With a space shuttle, of course – a חללית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חללית-1.m4a” /]. For example, Arik might say: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חללית-5.m4a” /]מי…
In 1949, my grandparents helped found a kibbutz near modern-day Modiin. The founders called it תחיה – basically, resurrection, since this was one of many Jewish settlements rising up in Israel only a few years after near-total destruction in Europe. In the coming years the kibbutz gave way to another agricultural settlement, and the standard…
having trouble seeing the print? סַכּוּ”ם Deadline today for Level 2 intensive! Jerusalem, evenings . Tel Aviv, afternoons jerusalem.ulpan.com . tlv.ulpan.com This one’s for Dolly. Silverware, flatware, cutlery, tableware… in English each has its own connotations, but the bottom line is that they all get the job done. They also are all made up –…
The basic word for these is אלה, as in: אלה המשקפיים שאיבדתי! These are the glasses I lost! and את באמת רוצה לקנות את אלה? Do you (a female) really want to buy these? There’s also אלו, which people tend to use in order to sound smart. It’s used in exactly the same way as אלה. These…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a” /]בְּאֹתוֹ יוֹם One of the most basic Hebrew words is יום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a” /] – day. Even if you’re brand new to Hebrew, you’ve probably heard this word before: it appears in יום כיפור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a” /] – Yom Kippur. What if you want to speak about something that happened on that day? In Hebrew, it’s באותו יום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a”…