Author: Ami Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /]לְהִפָּטֵר מִ- The Hebrew word for to get rid of something is להיפטר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /]. It always has -מ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /] – from or of – before the next word. It’s a נפעל verb, so that in the past tense it looks like this: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /]נפטרתי מכל הדברים המיותרים שישבו במחסן. I got…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/נדמה-לי-#.m4a” /]נִדְמֶה לִי Hebrew has several ways of saying I think. There’s אני חושב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/נדמה-לי-#.m4a” /] (for a male) and אני חושבת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/נדמה-לי-#.m4a” /] (for a female). These mean literally I think. There’s נראה לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/נדמה-לי-#.m4a” /] – it appears to me. And there’s נדמה לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/נדמה-לי-#.m4a” /] – very close to נראה לי, but…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/אשליה-#.m4a” /]אַשְׁלָיָה If להשלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/אשליה-#.m4a” /] is to delude or to raise false hopes, אשליה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/אשליה-#.m4a” /] is a delusion or an illusion. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/אשליה-#.m4a” /]אנשים מעטים מצליחים לפענח את האשליות האופטיות האלה. Few people manage to decipher these optical illusions. The א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/אשליה-#.m4a” /] at the beginning of אשליה is an Aramaic prefix….

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להשלות-#.m4a” /]לְהַשְׁלוֹת The הפעיל verb להשלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להשלות-#.m4a” /] – to delude or to raise false hopes – is probably related to the word שלווה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להשלות-#.m4a” /] – peace or tranquility: someone who has false hopes lives in a state of peace, not aware of danger outside of their presumed reality. Here’s להשלות in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להשלות-#.m4a” /]אנחנו…