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/2018/07/לקחת-קשה-#.m4a” /]הוּא לָקַח אֶת זֶה קָשֶׁה The Hebrew word for hard or difficult is קשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לקחת-קשה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לקחת-קשה-#.m4a” /]קשה להבין אותו כשהוא מדבר. It’s hard to understand him when he speaks. To express that someone took news with difficulty or not well, Israelis say לקחת את זה קשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לקחת-קשה-#.m4a” /] – literally, to take it…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להתפטר-#.m4a” /]לְהִתְפַּטֵּר The root פ.ט.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להתפטר-#.m4a” /] has to do with separation and setting free. Thus the reflexive התפעל verb להתפטר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להתפטר-#.m4a” /] means to quit a job or to resign. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להתפטר-#.m4a” /]היא התפטרה והלכה לעבוד בחברה אחרת. She quit and went to work at another company. That’s quitting when it comes to…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/חברה-#.m4a” /]חֶבְרָה The English word company has both social and business connotations. But in the end of the day, it’s the same word. Same in Hebrew: whether it refers to a group of people coming together for the purpose of giving their services to the world in exchange for money, or to a group of…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בעלים-#.m4a” /]בְּעָלִים Hebrew doesn’t have words for to own or to have. Rather, I have is יש לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בעלים-#.m4a” /] – literally, there is to me. And ownership is בעלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בעלים-#.m4a” /], deriving from the Biblical word בעל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בעלים-#.m4a” /] meaning master (also husband). When referring to the owner of a piece of real estate or a company, the word is בעלים[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/אולם-#.m4a” /]הֵיכָל, אוּלָם Hebrew has two words for the type of hall that can fit lots of people: היכל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/אולם-#.m4a” /] and אולם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/אולם-#.m4a” /]. היכל refers to a hall consecrated for a particular purpose, such as היכל התרבות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/אולם-#.m4a” /] – the Hall of Culture in Tel Aviv, and the היכל that was the gathering place…