how to say “scrambled egg” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-1.m4a” /]בֵּיצָה מְקֻשְׁקֶשֶת
We’ve seen that the active-intensive פיעל verb לקשקש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-2.m4a” /] means to scribble or to talk about nothing in particular. When cooking, this word can also refer to scrambling something such as an egg.
Thus a scrambled egg is ביצה מקושקשת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-1.m4a” /], as in:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-3.m4a” /]תכין לי בבקשה ביצה מקושקשת.
Make me a scrambled egg, please. (to a male)
מקושקשת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-4.m4a” /] is a passive-intensive פועל form of לקשקש.
Israelis don’t speak of scrambled eggs in the plural – only in the singular.
