[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/כמה-#.m4a” /]כַּמָּה Technically, this word is supposed to be pronounced with an emphasis on the last syllable: כַּמָּה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/כמה-#.m4a” /]. But the sweeping majority of Israelis will look at you funny if you try saying it that way in a sentence, instead, put the emphasis on the first syllable: כמה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/כמה-#.m4a” /]. The word…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/לנחות-#.m4a” /]לִנְחוֹת If להמריא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/לנחות-#.m4a” /] is to take off, לנחות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/לנחות-#.m4a” /] is to land. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/לנחות-#.m4a” /]רק עכשיו המראנו, ואתה כבר שואל מתי נוחתים? We just took off, and you’re already asking when we’re landing? לנחות is a simple פעל verb of the root נ.ח.ת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/לנחות-#.m4a” /]. which is about going down….
שינוי Aside from being the name of a short-lived left-of-center Israeli political party, the word שִׁנּוּי (shee-NOO-ee) means a change. Sometimes it takes a long time for a שינוי to appear. However, sometimes, שינוי takes place in an instant. Where in English you might say, it’s warm today, for a change, in…
לְיַשֵּׁב Can’t read Hebrew yet? There’s the simple verb, to sit – לָשֶׁבֶת . And there’s its intensive form, to settle something else – לְיַשֵּׁב . Both come from the root י.שׁ.ב (y.sh.b) meaning sitting. For example: הַסִּינִים יִשְּׁבוּ אֶת טַיווָאן. The Chinese settled Taiwan. and אוּלַי הוּא יַצְלִיחַ לְיַשֵּׁב אֶת הַסּוּגְיָה הַזֹּאת….