how to say “care” and “concern” in Hebrew
I first came across this word when I was among a group of 120 fourteen-year-olds learning to march with flags in Raanana.
We were the largest group of its kind in the country, so it’s no surprise that our counselors found our tendency to goof off challenging, often sitting us down for pep talks and yelling sessions, where they accused us of lacking אִכְפַּתִּיּוּת (eekh-PAH-tee-yoot) – care or concern… for the work we were doing, for the efforts the counselors were making, for the State, for the people of Israel…
They may have laid it on us too thick, and some of us may actually have felt a bit guilty. But none of it mattered: we were fourteen, and we were having a blast.
The new Level 2 course is based on my experiences that year in Raanana, where today there’s a branch of Ulpan La-Inyan in association with Telfed.
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| I didn’t learn much in school that year, but I did learn something more important: that, as a Jew, Israel is my home. |
To say someone is caring, you’d use the term אִכְפַּתִּי (eekh-PAH-tee) for a male and אִכְפַּתִּית (eekh-PAH-teet) for a female.
To say, I care, you’d say, אִכְפַּת לִי (eekh-PAHT lee). It’s a modal verb, so it doesn’t fit into one of the seven verb forms.
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