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– יש לילה לבן בעיר –
יהיו הרבה מסיבות.
– את מתכננת להיות?
– אני אגיע לחלק
מהאירועים. אבל אני לא
מתכוונת להישאר כל הלילה.
– There’s a white night in the city –
there will be lots of parties.
– Are you planning on going?
– I’ll show up to some of
the events. But I’m not
planning on staying all night.
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
שינוי Aside from being the name of a short-lived left-of-center Israeli political party, the word שִׁנּוּי (shee-NOO-ee) means a change. Sometimes it takes a long time for a שינוי to appear. However, sometimes, שינוי takes place in an instant. Where in English you might say, it’s warm today, for a change, in…
לְכָל דָּבָר וְעִנְיָין Growing up I would hear teachers in school use the expression “for all intensive purposes.” I knew what it meant but didn’t think about the words themselves. Only when I saw the expression in a book did the penny drop – it’s “for all intents and purposes.” Now it started making more…
Let these 10 terms color up your Purim. חג שמח ומבדח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/פורים-#.m4a” /] – happy, fun holiday! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] 8. יַיִן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/פורים-#.m4a” /] – wine It comes as no surprise that a word so basic to human life as wine would be virtually the same word across languages as diverse as English and Japanese. In Hebrew…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להשקות-1.m4a” /]לְהַשְׁקוֹת אֶת הַפְּרָחִים The simple word for a drink in Hebrew is שתייה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להשקות-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להשקות-3.m4a” /]בא לי שתייה קרה. I feel like (having) a cold drink. But a higher-register word, corresponding to the English beverage, is משקה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להשקות-4.m4a” /], of the root ש.ק.ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להשקות-5.m4a” /] – drink. This root also plugs…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנוע-1.m4a” /]מָנוֹעַ Though in English an engine and engineering come from the same root, in Hebrew this is not the case. While the profession of egineering is הנדסה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנוע-2.m4a” /] and an engineer is a מהנדס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנוע-3.m4a” /] (a male) or מהנדסת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנוע-4.m4a” /] (a female), an engine or a motor is a מנוע. While the הנדסה probably derives from…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יציאה-1.m4a” /]יְצִיאָה The word יציאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יציאה-1.m4a” /] means exit or outing. But it also refers to an amusing comment with a certain shock value. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יציאה-2.m4a” /]לסבתא היו כאלה יציאות ליד השולחן, שמתנו מצחוק. Grandma had such comments at the table, that we died of laughter.