how to say “filling” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/גדול-עלי-#.m4a” /]גָּדוֹל עָלַי, כָּבֵד עָלַי In Hebrew, when we want to express that something is too much for me to handle, we might say זה יותר מדי בשבילי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/גדול-עלי-#.m4a” /] – literally, it’s too much for me, but we’re more likely to use one of two other expressions: גדול עלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/גדול-עלי-#.m4a” /] – literally, big…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/להרחיב-#.m4a” /]לְהַרְחִיב If you’ve taken our Level 1 course, you know the Hebrew word for street – רחוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/להרחיב-#.m4a” /]. Historically, this was a place רחב מספיק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/להרחיב-#.m4a” /] – wide enough – for the people of a city to congregate. Taking the root ר.ח.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/להרחיב-#.m4a” /] (wide) and plugging it into the הפעיל verb form, we…
ירושלים The letter J makes the j sound in English. But in most other languages using the Latin alphabet, J makes the y sound. That’s how יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (ye-roo-shah-LAH-yeem) became Jerusalem. So what does ירושלים actually mean? Well, the most likely explanation (according to Wikipedia) is that the name combines two Semitic roots:…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]אוֹתִיּוֹת כְּתָב You may have heard that Hebrew has a 22-letter alphabet. That’s true, but there are two caveats: Five of those letters have a slightly different form – in most cases an elongated form – when appearing at the end of a word – כ-ך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /], [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]מ-ם, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a”…