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how to say “to pinch” in Hebrew
To pinch (someone) is לצבוט, a simple verb. For example: תפסיק לצבוט אותי! Stop pinching me! (to a boy… or a man) Likewise, a pinch – in the sense of getting pinched – is צביטה. But what about a pinch of salt? That’s קורט מלח, where קורט refers to the smallest amount of substance one can hold…
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how to say “upgraded” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משודרג-1.m4a” /]מְשֻׁדְרָג The Hebrew word for an upgrade is שדרוג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משודרג-x.m4a” /]. It takes the root ד.ר.ג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משודרג-2.m4a” /] meaning step or rung and adds a ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משודרג-3.m4a” /] to the beginning, creating the super-root (an upgraded root, if you will) ש.ד.ר.ג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משודרג-4.m4a” /] meaning upgrade or raise in quality. To upgrade is the active-intensive verb לשדרג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משודרג-5.m4a” /]. For example:…
how to say “veins and arteries” in Hebrew…
וְרִיד, עוֹרֶק I’m late on the word of the day… so I figured I’d give y’all a double portion. I remember, either from science class as a kid or from my mom telling me, that veins bring blood to the heart, while arteries take blood away from the heart. In Hebrew, veins are וְרִידִים (vree-DEEM), while…
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how to say “beautiful places” in Hebrew
מְקוֹמוֹת יָפִים Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you’ve got a bit of Hebrew under your belt, you likely know the word for place – מָקוֹם– whose root is ק.ו.מ (k.w.m) meaning getting up (a place is situated somewhere, as if it were made to stand in that location). מקום is a masculine word, so that a nice…