how to say “to make room” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/אופי-#.m4a” /]אֹפִי Yesterday we saw that the Hebrew word for personality – אישיות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/אופי-#.m4a” /] – comes from the basic Hebrew word איש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/אופי-#.m4a” /] meaning man, or more essentially, person. What about character – the parts of a person that are in some ways less personal but are nevertheless essential to who s/he is? That word in…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יומן-1.m4a” /]יוֹמָן The Spanish word for day is dia (pretty close in sound to day), and it serves as the basis for the word diary. Likewise, journal comes from the French journee, also meaning day. A diary or a journal is a book in which people record the events of their day, either as an intellectual/emotional exercise, or as a…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לכתב-1.m4a” /]לְכַתֵּב When we CC someone on an email, we copy them so that they too can see what we’ve sent. CC stands for carbon copy – quite an antiquated term, considering that email doesn’t use paper at all, let alone carbon paper. Modern Hebrew’s term for to CC, לכתב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לכתב-1.m4a” /], draws from the…