how to say “empowerment” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/להדרים-#.m4a” /]לְהַדְרִים The Hebrew word for south is דרום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/להדרים-#.m4a” /]. Its ah vowel in the beginning gets shortened to a short eh or cut off entirely when דרום appears in an of relationship (construct state or סמיכות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/להדרים-#.m4a” /]), as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/להדרים-#.m4a” /]הנגב נמצא בדרום הארץ. The Negev is in the south of Israel. To go south…
having trouble seeing the print? סִרְטוֹן Perhaps you know the Modern Hebrew word for movie or film – סֶרֶט (SEH-ret). The word made its first appearances in the Hebrew language a few thousand years ago, in the bodies of Jewish literature known as the Mishnah (מִשְׁנָה – meesh-NAH) and the Midrash (מִדְרָש – meed-RAHSH). In those…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרסה-#.m4a” /]פַּרְסָה In English, we call it a u-turn, since the trajectory of the turn is shaped like the letter U. In Hebrew, it’s a פרסה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרסה-#.m4a” /] – a horse’s hoof, or more precisely, the metal attached to the hoof, a horseshoe. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרסה-#.m4a” /]פספסנו את הפנייה – צריך לעשות פרסה. We…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ביצועי-שיא-1.m4a” /]בִּצּוּעֵי שִׂיא Yesterday we saw that a peak – of a mountain, for example – is פסגה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ביצועי-שיא-2.m4a” /]. But when talking about a person achieving peak performance, Hebrew does not use the metaphor of a peak, but rather the word for record: the term is ביצועי שיא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ביצועי-שיא-1.m4a” /] – literally, record performances. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ביצועי-שיא-3.m4a” /]היא מאמנת…
How do you say for in Hebrew? Depends on what kind of for you’re referring to. If it’s for in the sense of designating something for a particular purpose, a good word to use is בשביל. For example: בשביל מה צריך את כל הנייר הזה? For what do (we) need all this paper? The prefix -ל works just as…