how to say “two hundred” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? מוֹרְדִים listen and repeat Conversational Hebrew Classes This Fall, in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Register Now! This Ancient- and Modern-Hebrew word first appears in the Biblical story of אַבְרָם listen and repeat – Abram (before he was renamed אַבְרָהָם listen and repeat–Abraham) fighting the four kings: שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה עָבְדוּ אֶת…
having trouble seeing the print? יְצִיאַת חֵרוּם listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! The Hebrew word for emergency is חֵרוּם listen and repeat, as discussed here. An exit is a יְצִיאָה listen and repeat, coming from the active-simple verb לָצֵאת listen and repeat – to go out – whose root is י.צ.א (y.ts.a). …
having trouble seeing the print? תִּזְכּוֹרֶת Get to Know Our Full Conversational-Hebrew Program If you already know a bit of Hebrew, you’re bound to know the word for to remember – לִזְכּוֹר, an active-simple פָּעַל verb of the root ז.כ.ר (z.k.r). One of the words that the root ז.כ.ר generates is מַזְכֶּרֶת– souvenir (see earlier entry). Another is זִכָּרוֹן–…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מראה-1.m4a” /]מַרְאָה, רְאִי Non-human and non-animal things in English have no grammatical gender. You wouldn’t say “she’s a nice shirt” or “he’s a big house.” Most other Western and Middle-Eastern languages do have such gender assignments, and Hebrew is no exception. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מראה-2.m4a” /]היא חולצה יפה. It’s a nice shirt. and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מראה-3.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ניתוח-אנליטי-#.m4a” /]נִיתּוּחַ, אָנָלִיזָה, נִיתּוּחַ אָנָלִיטִי The Hebrew word ניתוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ניתוח-אנליטי-#.m4a” /] appears already in Biblical Hebrew, where it comes close to the modern usage of the word as surgery (taking apart the body for medical purposes). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ניתוח-אנליטי-#.m4a” /]הוא צריך לעבור ניתוח. He needs to undergo surgery. Now, ניתוח also means analysis –…
מַנְהִיגוּת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? In the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world, Moses is informed that he won’t be leading the People of Israel into the promised land. His response, defining his role as the leader, gets me every year: יִפְקֹד…