הוֹדָיָה This is a word that’s not used everyday. We’ve already done an entry on the word grateful, which you’ll find here. The Hebrew word for thanksgiving, as in English, is reserved for special occasions, such as that favorite American holiday itself. The word is הוֹדָיָה. It comes from the root ה.ד.ה (h.d.h) meaning…
נחיתה for a larger font… No, not the landing at the top of the staircase… I’m talking about the landing of a plane at an airport… or, for that matter, the landing of a bird on the roof. The Hebrew word is (ne-khee-TAH). It comes from the root נ.ח.ת (n.kh.t). The verb to land is לִנְחוֹת (leen-KHOHT), as…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/גז-טבעי-#.m4a” /]גַּז טִבְעִי The Hebrew word for gas is easy enough: גז[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/גז-טבעי-#.m4a” /]. And it turns out that both gas and גז derive from the word chaos – since gas is made up of atoms with a chaotic arrangement. Natural gas is גז טבעי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/גז-טבעי-#.m4a” /], since טבע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/גז-טבעי-#.m4a” /] means nature. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/גז-טבעי-#.m4a” /]לישראל יש מאגרים ענקיים…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/מטר-רבוע-#.m4a” /]מֶטֶר רָבוּעַ, מ”ר If you can count to ten in Hebrew, you know what ארבע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/מטר-רבוע-#.m4a” /] means (hint – it’s between three and five). The root of ארבע is ר.ב.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/מטר-רבוע-#.m4a” /], which appears in the expression מטר רבוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/מטר-רבוע-#.m4a” /] – square meter(s), usually abbreviated in writing to מ”ר (still read out…