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– אני מצטערת, אבל לא אוכל
להגיע באותו ערב.
– למה?
– יש בר מצווה לבן של השכנים.
– תירוצים, תירוצים…
– I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to come that evening.
– Why?
– My neighbors’ son has a Bar Mitzvah.
– Excuses, excuses…
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
having trouble seeing the print? מַסְפִּיק, דַּי brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online There are two words in Hebrew that mean enough. First word by Eran Finkle taken in Bet Yehoshua, Israel מַסְפִּיק (mahs-PEEK) comes from the root ס.פ.ק (s.p.k) meaning sufficiency. מספיק is an adjective and adverb deriving from the active-causative הפעיל…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/פלוס-מינוס-#.m4a” /]פָּחוֹת אוֹ יוֹתֵר, פְּלוּס מִינוּס Hebrew has two ways of saying give or take. The first is a literal translation of more or less: פחות או יותר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/פלוס-מינוס-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/פלוס-מינוס-#.m4a” /]הגיעו פחות או יותר מאה איש. Give or take a hundred people came. Another less formal way of saying give or…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /]אָמֵרִיקָאִי/אָמֶרִיקָנִי When Israelis refer to Americans, they’re most likely to call them אמריקאים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /], while one American male is אמריקאי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /] and one American female is אמריקאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /]. Likewise, אמריקאיות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /] are American females. There’s another way to say these: אמריקנים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /] – Americans (males or a mixed…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/השתלת-לב-1.m4a” /]הַשְׁתָּלַת לֵב While the heart transplant is a modern activity, the idea of planting certainly appears in Biblical Hebrew under the root ש.ת.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/השתלת-לב-2.m4a” /], as in the simple פעל verb לשתול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/השתלת-לב-3.m4a” /] – to plant. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/השתלת-לב-4.m4a” /]הילדה שתלה שתיל. The girl planted a sapling. What about a transplant?…