how to say “ticketing” in Hebrew
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Adam from RustyMike Radio likes to poke fun at the Israeli tendency to turn any noun into a verb – as in the case of the internet-derived slang term, לְפַסְבֵּק (leh-fahs-BEK) – to Facebook someone.
As banal as that example may be, it points out a morphological process more sophisticated than that of English, which simply turns “Facebook” the noun into “to Facebook” the verb – or “drum” the noun into “to drum” the verb: Hebrew identifies a root and plugs it into a fully-functional verb form.
Which of the seven verb forms is the form of choice for this Hebrew process? The winner – פיעל (pee-EL), the active-intensive form.
Take the word ticket for example. The noun is כַּרְטִיס (kahr-TEES), I’m guessing originally a Greek word. The verb, to ticket someone, is לְכַרְטֵס (leh-khahr-TES). Following the פיעל pattern all the way back to the abstract noun, we get כִּרְטוּס (keer-TOOS) for the process of ticketing – such as that done at the airport.
