אֵלֶּה, אֵלּוּ The basic word for these is אלה, as in: אלה המשקפיים שאיבדתי! These are the glasses I lost! and את באמת רוצה לקנות את אלה? Do you (a female) really want to buy these? There’s also אלו, which people tend to use in order to sound smart. It’s used in exactly the same way as…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-תקינה-1.m4a” /]עִבְרִית תַּקִּינָה If you’ve got some basic Hebrew under your belt, you may know the word for to fix – לתקן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-תקינה-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-תקינה-3.m4a” /]תקן לי את הטלוויזיה. Fix (my) TV for me. (spoken to a male) Thus something fixed is מתוקן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-תקינה-4.m4a” /]. And something fixed at its essence – correct or proper – is תקין[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נוזל-1.m4a” /]נוֹזֵל, נָזִיל The Hebrew word for a runny nose is נזלת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נוזל-2.m4a” /], which comes from the word נוזל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נוזל-3.m4a” /] meaning flowing or liquid. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נוזל-4.m4a” /]לפני צום, חשוב לשתות הרבה נוזלים. Before a fast, it’s important to drink lots of liquid(s). Now, that’s liquid the noun. To describe something as liquid, the…
having trouble seeing the print? תַּחֲרוּת Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program The Modern-Hebrew word for competition and competitiveness is תַּחֲרוּת, whose (reflexive-intensive הִתְפַּעֵל) verb form – to compete – is לְהִתְחָרוֹת . An example: אוֹבָּמָה וְרוֹמְנִי הִתְחָרוּ בְּתַחֲרוּת צְמוּדָה. Obama and Romney competed in a tight competition. In Modern Hebrew, the words sound benign. But their…