having trouble seeing the print? הַפְרָעָה If you already know some Hebrew, you may be familiar with the word for to disturb – לְהַפְרִיעַ , an active-causative הִפְעִיל verb. For example: מוֹרֶה: לֹא לְהַפְרִיעַ בַּשִּׁעוּר! Teacher (a male): Do not disturb (during the) class! The noun form of להפריע, a disturbance, is הַפְרָעָה . And…
אַרְיֶה, לָבִיא If you’ve toured northern Israel, you may have come across a place called Kibbutz Lavi – קִבּוּץ לָבִיא The word לָבִיא, in Modern Hebrew, is a flowery term for lion – whereas אַרְיֶהis the common word: יֵשׁ אֲרָיוֹת בְּאַפְרִיקָה. There are lions in Africa. Adding a feminine suffix to לביא, we get…
having trouble seeing the print? חוֹזֶה Learn to Speak Hebrew With Us, Online This past Tuesday I did a workshop at AACI Jerusalem entitled “Decoding the Bills.” It’s the second of a three-part series called “Getting Things Done… in Hebrew.” I’m giving part three, “Phoning Israeli Companies”, this coming Tuesday at 10am,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לזרוק-1.m4a” /]לִזְרוֹק Unlike some actions, such as to print – להדפיס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לזרוק-2.m4a” /] – that came into existence only in the modern era, to throw throws us back to Biblical times: לזרוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לזרוק-1.m4a” /] appears already in ספר שמות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לזרוק-3.m4a” /] – the Book of Exodus. Here’s a Modern-Hebrew example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לזרוק-4.m4a” /]זרוק את הכדור! Throw…
If you know some basic Hebrew (surely if you’ve taken Level 1 of our program), you know how to say he is walking – הוּא הוֹלֵך (hoo hoh-LEKH). To say he is wandering, you’d use הוּא מִתְהַלֵּך (hoo meet-hah-LEKH). This is a reflexive התפעל (heet-pah-EL) usage of the root ה.ל.כ. In Modern Hebrew, the…