מָאתַיִם, אַלְפַּיִם listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday we saw the Hebrew terms for three hundred and three thousand – שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת listen and repeat and שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים listen and repeat, respectively. Higher multiples of those numbers follow a pattern: אַרְבַּע מְאוֹת, אַרְבַּעַת אֲלָפִים – 400, 4000 listen and repeat חֲמֵשׁ מְאוֹת,…
שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת, שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for hundred is feminine, as its ah ending hints – מֵאָה listen and repeat. And since numbers are adjectives, three hundred is שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת listen and repeat – literally, three of hundred. For example: מִבְחַן נְהִיגָה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹלֶה שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת…
מַעֲצָמָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Last week we saw the word for empowerment – הַעֲצָמָה listen and repeat– of the root ע.צ.מ (a.ts.m) meaning might or fortitude. Here’s a similar-sounding word, the one for world power – מַעֲצָמָה listen and repeat. For example: בָּעוֹלָם הַקָּדוּם, מִצְרַיִם הָיְתָה מַעֲצָמָה….
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!…
הַעֲצָמָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Everyone likes feeling powerful. And it’s a pleasure to help someone else feel it. The Hebrew word for empowerment is הַעֲצָמָה listen and repeat. It is the noun version of the active-causative verb לְהַעֲצִים listen and repeat– to empower – of the root ע.צ.מ (a.ts.m)….
יְרוּשַׁלְמִי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? One of the things that make residents of this city unique is their response to snow. While Torontonians and New Yorkers and Parisians get on with their daily lives when it snows, Jerusalemites scramble for days before the cold white stuff starts coming down,…
גֵּרוּשִׁין listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to expel or to banish is the (not surprisingly) active-intensive verb לְגָרֵשׁ listen and repeat. It’s the same word used already in Biblical Hebrew for the unfortunate circumstance where a man asks his wife to leave – when he divorces her. Since today…
עוֹד לֹא, עֲדַיִן לֹא, טֶרֶם listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? As in most languages, Hebrew has various registers – different words meaning something similar, but functioning in different contexts. For example, the expression not yet has a common expression – עוֹד לֹא listen and repeat or עֲדַיִן לֹא listen and repeat– and synonym…
לְהִתְרַבּוֹת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you know a bit of Hebrew, you probably know the word for a lot or much – הַרְבֵּה listen and repeat – as in: אֲנִי רוֹצֶה לָדַעַת הַרְבֵּה עִבְרִית. I (a male) want to know a lot of Hebrew. listen The root ר.ב.ה…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!…
פּוֹשֵׁעַ, פְּלִילִי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for crime in general is פֶּשַׁע listen and repeat, as in: גִּבּוֹרֵי-עַל נִלְחָמִים בַּפֶּשַׁע. Superheroes fight (the) crime. listen Thus a criminal is a פּוֹשֵׁעַ listen and repeat (a male) or a פּוֹשַׁעַת listen and repeat (a female). Now that’s criminal as…