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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוכנות-נדלן-1.m4a” /]סוֹכְנוּת נַדְלָ”ן You may know of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Some of you may even work there. The organization’s name in Hebrew is הסוכנות היהודית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוכנות-נדלן-2.m4a” /], where סוכנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוכנות-נדלן-3.m4a” /] means agency. Likewise, an agent is a סוכן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוכנות-נדלן-4.m4a” /] (male) or סוכנת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוכנות-נדלן-5.m4a” /] (female). Now, just as Hebrew borrows from Aramaic…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ללא-גבינה-1.m4a” /]לְלֹא גְּבִינָה Suppose you’re a vegan, going out for pizza with friends. Maybe you don’t even have to suppose. When you get to the counter, you ask for cheeseless pizza – פיצה ללא גבינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ללא-גבינה-2.m4a” /]. ללא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ללא-גבינה-3.m4a” /] is one of several ways to say without in Hebrew. It’s used especially in phrases that…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-1.m4a” /]בֵּיצָה מְקֻשְׁקֶשֶת     We’ve seen that the active-intensive פיעל verb לקשקש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-2.m4a” /] means to scribble or to talk about nothing in particular. When cooking, this word can also refer to scrambling something such as an egg. Thus a scrambled egg is ביצה מקושקשת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-1.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-3.m4a” /]תכין לי בבקשה ביצה מקושקשת. Make…