how to say “sodium” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/מכבסה-#.m4a” /]מִכְבָּסָה While כביסה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/מכבסה-#.m4a” /] is laundry, מכבסה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/מכבסה-#.m4a” /] (colloquially pronounced מַכְבְּסָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/מכבסה-#.m4a” /]*) is a business that specializes in doing people’s laundry for them (or renting them machines to do it themselves), what one might call the cleaners or a laundromat. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/מכבסה-#.m4a” /]צריך להביא את הבגדים למכבסה. (We) need…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הדברה-1.m4a” /]הַדְבָּרָה Yesterday we saw the Hebrew word for a bee – דבורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הדברה-2.m4a” /]. Another word ostensibly of the same root, ד.ב.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הדברה-3.m4a” /], is הדברה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הדברה-1.m4a” /] – pest control. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הדברה-X.m4a” /]כשהיא לא יכלה כבר לסבול את הנמלים במטבח, היא החליטה להתקשר לחברת הדברה. When she could no longer stand the ants…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מימייה-#.m4a” /]מֵימִיָּה Literally, a water bottle in Hebrew is בקבוק מים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מימייה-#.m4a” /], and you can use this term as well. But the kind of water bottle that isn’t disposable, the kind that hikers or soldiers tend to carry with them, is מימייה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מימייה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מימייה-#.m4a” /]דוד, ארזת כובע מצחייה? קרם הגנה?…