[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אמבטיה-#.m4a” /]אַמְבַּטְיָה While the Hebrew word for a shower is מקלחת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אמבטיה-#.m4a” /] and for a sink is כיור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אמבטיה-#.m4a” /] – proper Semitic words – bathtub is אמבטיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אמבטיה-#.m4a” /], which comes from ancient Greek. To take a bath is לעשות אמבטיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אמבטיה-#.m4a” /] – literally, to do a bathtub. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אמבטיה-#.m4a” /]עשית אבמטיה? טוב, לך לישון….
מֶתַח Can’t read Hebrew yet? In Biblical Hebrew, the simple verb לִמְתּוֹח of the root מ.ת.ח (m.t.kh) means to spread out. Modern Hebrew also uses the word to mean to stretch, while a מְתִיחָה is a stretch, for example: הוּא עוֹשֶׂה עֶשֶׂר מְתִיחוֹת לִפְנֵי שֶׁהוּא נִכְנָס לַבְּרֵכָה. He does ten…
having trouble seeing the print? יְסוֹדִי Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Many of the readers on this blog are busy this week preparing their dwellings for Passover. This preparation demands, above all, a thorough cleaning – נִקּוּי יְסוֹדִי (nee-KOO-yee yeh-soh-DEE). The foundations of Hebrew יסודי is an adjective form…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /]עוֹבְדִים בְּצַוְתָּא The generic and literal expression for working together is עובדים ביחד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /]אנחנו עובדים ביחד כבר עשר שנים. We’ve been working together already for ten years. A more colorful expression is עובדים בצוותא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /], where צוותא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /], an Aramaic word, means togetherness. For example:…