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מַחֲנֵה, חַנְיוֹן לַיְלָה Some of my friends grew up going to מחנה קיץ – summer camp, implying a sleep-away arrangement. I went to קייטנה – day camp. מחנה means camp, as well as campsite in the general sense. But when looking for a place to spend the night on the Israel (hiking) Trail, you won’t find…
אֵלֶּה, אֵלּוּ 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…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/פשלה-#.m4a” /]פַשְׁלָה The Hebrew-slang word פשלה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/פשלה-#.m4a” /], like many (but certainly not all) Hebrew-slang words, comes from Arabic (فشلة). It means literally failure, but Israelis use it to refer to a mess-up or mistake, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/פשלה-#.m4a” /]עשיתי פשלה, אבל אני מקווה שהחומוס בכל זאת יצא טעים! I messed up (did a mess-up),…
לְהַרְאוֹת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Seeing is one of the simplest concepts to describe in language. Hebrew expresses it using a verb of the “simple” verb form: לִרְאוֹת , of the root ר.א.ה (r.a.h). To express causing someone to see something – showing it to them – Hebrew employs the causative verb form, yielding…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דרישות-1.m4a” /]דְּרִישׁוֹת In Biblical Hebrew, לדרוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דרישות-2.m4a” /] means to seek out, usually a person or a piece of evidence. In Mishnaic times, rabbis began to seek out meanings within texts – the process of מדרש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דרישות-3.m4a” /] – Midrash (in Arabic, the parallel root درس – d.r.s – means study). In Modern Hebrew, לדרוש means primarily to demand – to seek…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/בזכות-#.m4a” /]בִּזְכוּת The basic word for thanks is תודה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/בזכות-#.m4a” /]. But to say that a good thing happened thanks to someone or something – owing to someone or something, the expression is בזכות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/בזכות-#.m4a” /] – literally, in merit of. It’s a grateful way of saying that one thing caused another. For example: [audioclip…