[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]לֹא הָיָה וְלֹא נִבְרָא To express that something never took place, you could say זה אף פעם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] or זה מעולם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]. But Hebrew has a more special expression for this: לא היה ולא נברא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] – literally, it was not and was never created. For…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/רחפן-#.m4a” /]רַחֲפָן The Hebrew word for drone or quadcopter is רחפן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/רחפן-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/רחפן-#.m4a” /]הסצנה הזאת צולמה מרחפן. This scene was filmed from a drone. רפחן comes from the פיעל verb לרחף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/רחפן-#.m4a” /] – to hover.
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/כחול-כהה-#.m4a” /]כָּחוֹל כֵּהֶה Navy blue, in Hebrew, is כחול כהה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/כחול-כהה-#.m4a” /] – literally, dark blue. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/כחול-כהה-#.m4a” /]יש לכם חולצה כזאת בצבע כחול כהה? Do you guys have a shirt like this in the color navy blue ? כהה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/כחול-כהה-#.m4a” /] means simply dark when describing a person or object, so that dark red…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/עמק-#.m4a” /]עֵמֶק, בִּקְעָה Hebrew has two words for the geological phenomenon we call in English a valley. עמק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/עמק-#.m4a” /] is the more common term. The word is composed of the root ע.מ.ק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/עמק-#.m4a” /] meaning deep: a valley is a deep part of the land, when compared with the mountains around it. For…