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– יש לי שתי תאומות בגיל צבא.
– שתיהן מתגייסות?
– אחת תעשה שירות לאומי.
– והשנייה?
– מתגייסת ליחידה קרבית.
– I have twin girls of military age.
– Are they both getting drafted?
– One will do National Service.
– And the other?
– She’s drafting to a combat unit.
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/טרי-1.m4a” /]טָרִי Although you might have eaten at a restaurant in Jerusalem called פרש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/טרי-2.m4a” /], the true Hebrew word for fresh is טרי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/טרי-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/טרי-3.m4a” /]בשוק מחנה יהודה קונים ירקות טריים וטעימים. At the Mahane Yehuda market, (you can) buy fresh, tasty vegetables. There, you a seller might try to…
לחסל Suppose you’ve got a tub of חוּמוּס (KHOO-moos) – hummus – in the fridge, and you’re having guests over that love to dip into it. You might say, together, we’ll polish off this חומוס. In Hebrew, you’d say, בְּיַחַד, נְחַסֵּל אֶת הַחוּמוּס הַזֶּה (be-YAH-khahd, ne-khah-SEHL et hah-KHOO-moos hah-ZEH). The word for to finish…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ספוג-1.m4a” /]סְפוֹג Appearing in the Mishnah, the Hebrew word for sponge – ספוג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ספוג-1.m4a” /] – borrows from the Greek σπόγγος (spongos). From that source comes the active-simple verb לספוג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ספוג-2.m4a” /] – to absorb (both physically and metaphorically), and the word for those חנוכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ספוג-3.m4a” /] (Hanukkah) favorites, סופגניות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ספוג-4.m4a” /] – doughnuts. The word in…
[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/2022/03/אצלי-#.m4a” /]אֶצְלִי At my house in Hebrew is literally בבית שלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אצלי-#.m4a” /], but when Israelis want to say, “she’s at my house”, they’re more likely to use a different expression: היא אצלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אצלי-#.m4a” /]. אצלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אצלי-#.m4a” /] means at my house, at my place, and even on my person. It takes the word אצל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אצלי-#.m4a”…