how to say “teaching” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/עומד-ל-#.m4a” /]עוֹמֵד ל- Different languages have different ways of expressing that someone is about to do something. Hebrew’s way is to say literally, standing to: -עומד ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/עומד-ל-#.m4a” /] if it’s a male doing the action, and -עומדת ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/עומד-ל-#.m4a” /] if it’s a female. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/עומד-ל-#.m4a” /]אני עומד לעלות על מטוס, אחזור אליך…
שִׂרְטוּט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרטוט-1.mp3″ /] To scratch someone is לִשְׂרוֹט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרטוט-2.mp3″ /], a simple verb of the root שׂ.ר.ט (s.r.t). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרטוט-3.mp3″ /]אִמָּא, רָחֵלִי שׂוֹרֶטֶת אֹתִי! Mom, Racheli is scratching me! We might say that a sketch is series of scratches on a page… as is a blueprint. Both of these are called שִׂרְטוּט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרטוט-1.mp3″…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/עמק-#.m4a” /]עֵמֶק, בִּקְעָה Hebrew has two words for the geological phenomenon we call in English a valley. עמק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/עמק-#.m4a” /] is the more common term. The word is composed of the root ע.מ.ק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/עמק-#.m4a” /] meaning deep: a valley is a deep part of the land, when compared with the mountains around it. For…
having trouble seeing the print? נֵס brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and the world This one’s for JJ. Forty five years ago three major Arab powers in the Middle East threatened to destroy the Jewish State and bring upon a second Holocaust. The people of Israel began to dig graves…
קַלְפִּי Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for ballot box – that box with a slot for the votes taking place today in Israel – is קַלְפִּי . The word, borrowed from the Greek κάλπη (kalpi), first appears in Mishnaic Hebrew. What about the word for the ballot itself?…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /]סְתָם To joke around, in Hebrew, is להתבדח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /], while I’m joking is אני צוחק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] if you’re a male and אני צוחקת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] if you’re a female. Both צוחק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] and צוחקת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /] are forms of the simple verb לצחוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/סתם-#.m4a” /], which means literally to laugh….