[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/להתאפק-#.m4a” /]לְהִתְאַפֵּק להתאפק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/להתאפק-#.m4a” /] (a התפעל verb) is to resist in the sense of abstaining from acting on an impulse. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/להתאפק-#.m4a” /]הילד לא הצליח להתאפק ואכל את שאר העוגה. The boy couldn’t (didn’t succeed to) resist and ate the rest of the cake. Likewise, restraint is איפוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/להתאפק-#.m4a” /], as…
having trouble seeing the print? בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי To create the word international, English takes the word national and appends to it the prefix, inter-. Hebrew does the same, where the word לְאֻמִּי meaning national gets the word inter/between/among – בֵּין – added to the beginning, yielding בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי . For example: לִמְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשׁ רָמַת יְצוּא בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי מַדְהִימָה בִּתְחוּם הַהַי טֶק. Israel has an…
having trouble seeing the print? מָסָךְ Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! The flat object emanating light, text and images you’re probably looking at right now, a monitor, is called in Hebrew a מָסָך (mah-SAHKH). This word goes all the way back to the Torah, in which a מסך – a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגנות-1.m4a” /]לְגַנּוֹת After the horrors of Paris Friday night, powers that be all around the world denounced the acts of terror. The Hebrew word for to denounce is לגנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגנות-1.m4a” /]. The root is ג.נ.ה (g.n.h), but since the ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגנות-2.m4a” /] makes a weak sound and disappears in many conjugations, the feminine ות-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגנות-3.m4a” /] ends…
having trouble seeing the print? תָּכְנִית הַחֲלֻקָּה How’s your Hebrew? 10 spots available per course. Sign up now! This one’s for Yonit, whose birthday coincides with this historic date. Today marks sixty-four years since the UN General Assembly adopted the Partition Plan for Palestine. The Hebrew translation for that loaded term is…