[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכה-#.m4a” /]סִיכָּה The word for pin – something sharp you might use to pin two things together – is סיכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכה-#.m4a” /] in Hebrew, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכה-#.m4a” /]נפצעתי מסיכת ביטחון! I got hurt from a safety pin! The root of סיכה is ס.כ.כ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכה-#.m4a” /], the same as that of סוכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/סיכה-#.m4a” /] – Sukkah….
בּוֹדֵד listen to this word pronounced Yesterday I joined Mekete, his brothers, his extended family and his friends at his Bar Mitzvah celebration in Holon. The people at Mekete’s school really went above and beyond to make sure that he had a fun, meaningful occasion – and that he would feel enveloped in love. …
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנומס-1.m4a” /]מְנֻמָּס Some might scoff and say there’s no word in Hebrew for polite. And, in a way, they’d be right, since the word מנומס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנומס-1.m4a” /] – polite – comes to Hebrew via the Greek word νομος (nomos) meaning law or custom. Thus manners in Hebrew are נימוסים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנומס-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנומס-3.m4a” /]אין להם נימוסים. They have no manners. Here’s מנומס…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אכילת-יתר-1.m4a” /]אֲכִילַת יֶתֶר Hebrew doesn’t have a verb like the English to overeat. Instead, Israelis are wont to say: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אכילת-יתר-2.m4a” /]אכלתי יותר מדי. I ate too much. But there is a word for overeating the thing: אכילת יתר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אכילת-יתר-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אכילת-יתר-3.m4a” /]אכילת יתר יכולה להגיע להתמכרות. Overeating can become (arrive at) addiction.
having trouble seeing the print? מְסִבַּת עִתּוֹנָאִים listen and repeat This is my favorite term in Hebrew. When you hear the term press conference, microphones and cameras might come to mind, perhaps also politicians or celebrities making statements. When I hear the Hebrew version of press conference, the first thing that comes…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַסְכִּים listen and repeat Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us They say that the second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed as a result of senseless hatred. Somehow, these days marking the anniversary of that and other Jewish calamities has a way of getting people in Israel quite edgy. …