having trouble seeing the print? חַיּוֹת בַּר Hebrew courses starting Sunday in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Rehovot My recent reading and watching of Life of Pi leaves me inspired to share with you a piece on the Hebrew expression for wild animals: חַיּוֹת בַּר . In Rabbinic literature, חַיָּה (coming from the word חָי meaning living) refers specifically to a non-domesticated animal, while…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /]חוֹלֶה קוֹרוֹנָה When referring to someone with a disease, the English word patient sounds much nicer than its Hebrew equivalent – חולֶה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /] (a male) or חולָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /] (a female), meaning literally sick one. In any case, a corona patient – literally, sick one of corona – is חולת קורונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /] (a…
Can’t read Hebrew yet? אָזְנִיּוֹת When I walk around Jerusalem learning Arabic with my language lessons, I make sure people see that I’m wearing headphones (or a Bluetooth), so that they don’t think I’m crazy talking to myself. The Hebrew word for headphones or earphones is אָזְנִיּוֹת , deriving from the…
בִּלְתִּי הָפִיךְ How you can help a family of orphans THANK YOU to those who have already helped! The word בִּלְתִּי (beel-TEE) comes before another word to do what the prefixes “un-” and “in-” do in English. Some examples of such phrases that have already appeared on Ktzat Ivrit are בִּלְתִּי חֻקִּי (beel-TEE…
חַלּוֹן, צֹהַר Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for the physical window found on the sides of homes and buildings is חַלּוֹן . Though חלון is a masculine noun, it looks feminine in the plural: מַעֲרֶכֶת הַהַפְעָלָה שֶׁל מִיקְרוֹסוֹפט נִקְרֵאת “חַלּוֹנוֹת.” Microsoft’s operating system is called Windows. חלון also means…