How to say “weekday” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/יום-חול-1.m4a” /]יוֹם חוֹל
While Saturday and Sunday in most Western countries are days off, the average secular person today don’t consider either one of them particularly holy in the religious sense.
Hebrew, however, makes that distinction, so that even secular Jews call Sunday through Friday ימי חול [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/יום-חול-2.m4a” /] – weekdays, or literally, profane (as in non-holy) days.
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/יום-חול-3.m4a” /] נדבר על העסקה ביום חול.
We’ll talk about the deal on a weekday.
ימי חול are weekdays, while יום חול [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/יום-חול-4.m4a” /] is a weekday.
