how to say “warmth” in Hebrew
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Wishing you all a שבת שלום וסוף שבוע חָמִים… ושנה טובה Shabbat Shalom, a warm weekend (sohf shah-VOO-ah khah-MEEM)… and happy new year,
Ami
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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/קח-וסע-#.m4a” /]קַח וְסַע קח וסע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/קח-וסע-#.m4a” /] – take and go – isn’t super common. It’s in the motto of one of Israel’s shared car services: פשוט קח וסע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/קח-וסע-#.m4a” /] – literally, just take and go. But since it’s got two imperative (command) forms of super-common verbs, I figured it’s worth a Dose. קח[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-1.m4a” /]נַעֲלֵי רִיצָה, נַעֲלֵי סְפּוֹרְט If you’ve got some basic Hebrew, you probably know the word for shoes – נעליים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-2.m4a” /]. But there are different types of shoes, such as נעלי ריקוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-3.m4a” /] – dancing shoes, נעלי ריצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-4.m4a” /] – running shoes and נעלי טניס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נעלי-ספורט-5.m4a” /] – tennis shoes. Israelis are likely to call any…
מַבְרִיק The Hebrew word for lightning – or a sparkle of light – is בָּרָק (bah-RAHK). It’s also the name of a hero in סֵפֶר שׁוֹפְטִים (SEH-fehr shoh-feh-TEEM) – the Book of Judges – as well as the current American president. Something shining in such a way as to describe it as brilliant is called, in Hebrew, מַבְרִיק (mahv-REEK) – an adjective deriving from the active-causative הפעיל form. A couple…
נְשִׂיאוּת Can’t read Hebrew yet? Tomorrow, the Israeli Knesset will elect a new president to represent the Jewish State to the world. The Hebrew word for president is נָשִׂיא if he’s a male and נְשִׂיאָה if she’s a female. The word comes from the root נ.שׂ.א (n.s.a) meaning lifting: the president is a person lifted up from…