Author: Ami Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/להאריך-ימים-#.m4a” /]לְהַאֲרִיךְ יָמִים Like much of Modern Hebrew, the expression for to live a long life – להאריך ימים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/להאריך-ימים-#.m4a” /] (literally, to lengthen days), comes straight from the Bible. In this case, it comes from the Ten Commandments: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/להאריך-ימים-#.m4a” /]כַּבֵּד אֶת אָבִיךָ וְאֶת אִמֶּךָ לְמַעַן יַאֲרִכוּן יָמֶיךָ (שמות כ’, י”א) Honor your…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a” /]רוֹמָן The Hebrew word for a novel that people read is רומן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a” /]. It comes from the Russian, which comes from the French, which derives from Latin. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a” /]מי יכתוב את הרומן הישראלי הגדול? Who will write the Great Israeli Novel? Novel in the sense of new is חדש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /]אָמֵרִיקָאִי/אָמֶרִיקָנִי When Israelis refer to Americans, they’re most likely to call them אמריקאים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /], while one American male is אמריקאי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /] and one American female is אמריקאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /]. Likewise, אמריקאיות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /] are American females. There’s another way to say these: אמריקנים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/אמריקאי-#.m4a” /] – Americans (males or a mixed…