how to say “I can’t afford” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ליתר-ביטחון-#.m4a” /]לְיֶתֶר בִּטָּחוֹן Earlier this week we saw the word ביטוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ליתר-ביטחון-#.m4a” /] – insurance. Its root, ב.ט.ח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ליתר-ביטחון-#.m4a” /] meaning sure, is also the root of other words like בטיחות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ליתר-ביטחון-#.m4a” /] – safety and ביטחון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ליתר-ביטחון-#.m4a” /] – security. Hebrew’s way of saying just in case is ליתר ביטחון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ליתר-ביטחון-#.m4a” /] – literally, for greater security. For…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להחליט-1.m4a” /]תַּחְלִיט! The Hebrew word for to decide is להחליט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להחליט-2.m4a” /]. It’s an active-causative verb of the biblical root ח.ל.ט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להחליט-3.m4a” /] meaning to make final. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להחליט-4.m4a” /]קשה לי להחליט איזה צבע לקחת… It’s hard for me to decide which color to take… To which someone losing patience might reply: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להחליט-1.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/בדיכאון-1.m4a” /]בְּדִכָּאוֹן When I was in graduate school for psychology, whenever I would read about a psychiatric disorder, I would start to see the symptoms in myself. If I was learning about paranoid schizophrenia, I would start imagining that people were stalking me. If it was anxiety, I’d get jittery. And when we learned about depression, my life would…