how to say “dried fruit” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/לצמיתות-#.m4a” /]לִצְמִתֻת Here’s a nice Biblical-Hebrew word that graces the lips of Modern Hebrew speakers from Safed to Eilat: לצמיתות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/לצמיתות-#.m4a” /] – permanently. A biblical appearance: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/לצמיתות-#.m4a” /]וְהָאָרֶץ לֹא תִמָּכֵר לִצְמִתֻת (ויקרא כ”ה, כ”ג) And the land shall not be sold permanently (Leviticus 25:23) And here it is in a modern context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/לצמיתות-#.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מסובך-1.m4a” /]זֶה מְסֻבָּךְ For those of you who don’t know, Facebook allows people to show their relationship status with tags like “single”, “married”, “divorced”, and others. The one that might spark the most curiosity is the status, “it’s complicated.” In Hebrew, that’s זה מסובך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מסובך-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מסובך-2.m4a” /]סטטוס מערכת היחסים שלי? זה מסובך….
כרטיס ביקור Today at AACI, the executive director’s teenage son (who may be one of the counselors on our summer program for preteen new immigrants) handed me the most innovative business card I’ve seen in a while, perhaps ever: I scribbled over the phone number so that he doesn’t get swamped. The…
אָכֵן listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Indeed once was a common word in English. Today it’s used more often than not sarcastically or smugly (though sometimes it’s used sincerely as well). Its Hebrew equivalent, אָכֵן listen and repeat, is used in a similar vein. For example: סִיַּמְתָּ אֶת כָּל הָעֲבוֹדָה…
having trouble seeing the print? מְהַבְהֵב Our Hebrew class starts Sunday! 10 spots available per course. Sign up now! P.S. from yesterday’s dose As a post-script to yesterday’s entry on worshiping, the Aramaic root ס.ג.ד (s.g.d) meaning to bow down appears in other Semitic languages as well, most notably in Arabic word for Mosque – مسجد (MAHS-jid)…
שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for chain (Biblical as well as Modern) is שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת listen and repeat. Say it out loud a few times. As a chain is a string of connected loops (לוּלָאוֹת listen and repeat), the word שרשרת itself conveys a sense of pieces being connected to one another – with…