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how to say “the United Nations” in Hebrew
הָאוּ”ם listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The only organization whose name has been appearing in the news as often as Hamas recently is the United Nations. The Hebrew translation is הָאוּמוֹת הַמְּאֻחָדוֹת listen and repeat, or in short, like “the UN,” הָאוּ”ם listen and repeat. Broken down: האומות listen and…
how to say “a cooling trend” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? מְגַמַּת הִתְקָרְרוּת Check out our spring coursesin Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat and Ramat Beit Shemesh Jerusalem saw snow less than two weeks ago. Then it got warm enough to walk around in tee-shirts and sandals. But it’s getting cold again. A cooling trend is a מְגַמַּת הִתְקָרְרוּת (meh-gah-MAHT heet-kah-reh-ROOT). The word מְגַמָּה (meh-gah-MAH), one that…
how to say “noon” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/צוהריים-#.m4a” /]צוֹהֳרַיִים The Hebrew word for noon is צוהריים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/צוהריים-#.m4a” /] (according to the pre-2017 spelling, צהריים). While אחר הצוהריים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/צוהריים-#.m4a” /] or אחרי הצוהריים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/צוהריים-#.m4a” /] means afternoon (literally, after the noon), people often abbreviate and just use צוהריים to refer to the first few hours after 12pm. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/צוהריים-#.m4a” /]הוא אמר שהוא יקפוץ לבקר…
how to say “reply” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/תגובה-#.m4a” /]תְּגוּבָה The word תגובה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/תגובה-#.m4a” /] means reaction or response, derving from the הפעיל verb להגיב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/תגובה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/תגובה-#.m4a” /]ניסיתי לגרום לו להגיב… אבל אין תגובה! I tried getting him to react… but there’s no response! תגובה and להגיב also means reply, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/תגובה-#.m4a” /]בעוד כמה דקות אגיב למייל ששלחת,…
how to say “self esteem” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הערכה-עצמית-1.m4a” /]הַעֲרָכָה עַצְמִית The word for the self in Hebrew is the same as the word for bone – עצם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הערכה-עצמית-2.m4a” /]. עצם as self in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הערכה-עצמית-3.m4a” /]אני רואה את עצמי במראה. I (a male) see myself in the mirror. and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הערכה-עצמית-4.m4a” /]תארי לעצמך שאת הולכת ביער. Imagine to yourself (a female) that you’re walking in…
how to say “to fall” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-1.m4a” /]לִפּוֹל The root of the word ליפול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-1.m4a” /] is נ.פ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-2.m4a” /] – since early Hebrew speakers found it troublesome to say לנפול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-7.m4a” /], the nasal n sound disappeared, leaving only a trace in the hardening of the פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-3.m4a” /] – from a f sound to p. In variations of ליפול, though, the n sound…
