Building a Business in Israel

how to say “treasure” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger February 23, 2022February 17, 2022

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אוצר-#.m4a” /]אוֹצָר The word אוצר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אוצר-#.m4a” /] means both treasure and treasury (Israel’s Ministry of Finance is called משרד האוצר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אוצר-#.m4a” /] – literally, Ministry of the Treasury). It’s also a Hebrew name for both girls and boys, though not a common one. Here it is in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אוצר-#.m4a” /]הילדה הזאת היא פשוט אוצר. This…

daily video – how to say “to play tag” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 16, 2020January 30, 2021

To slow down the audio, start playing the video and then click the settings icon at the bottom-right of the video and change the playback speed. תמליל של הכתוביות בעברית אהלן חברים יקרים הצוות שלי עכשיו עשה לי בית ספר על מה זה משחקי ילדים בישראל כי אני הרי גדלתי בלוס אנג'לס אז אני הכרתי...

how to say “to become available” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger June 18, 2018October 17, 2018

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a” /]לְהִתְפַּנּוֹת If you’ve taken our Level 1 course, you know forms of the simple verb לפנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a” /] – to turn. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a” /]אתה צריך לפנות שמאלה ברמזור. You (a male) need to turn left at the light. לפנות in a passive sense means available or turned from the other (busy) direction – פנוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a”…

how to say “company” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 24, 2018October 17, 2018

[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…

how to say “a cold” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger April 12, 2011November 7, 2018

הִצְטַנְּנוּת, הִתְקָרְרוּת, נָזֶּלֶת In Israel, as in the United States and probably everywhere else in the world, people catch the common cold all the time. I’ve caught it recently, as you might hear from the . Anyway, the cold is so common that it has three words in Hebrew. הִתְקָרְרוּת (heet-kah-reh-ROOT) comes from the…

how to say “annoying” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger June 26, 2016October 22, 2018

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מעצבן-1.m4a” /]מְעַצְבֵּן The Hebrew word עצב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מעצבן-2.m4a” /] means nerve, so that someone nervous is עצבני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מעצבן-3.m4a” /] (a male) or עצבנית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מעצבן-4.m4a” /] (a female). To get on someone’s nerves – to annoy – is the active-intensive לעצבן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מעצבן-5.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מעצבן-6.m4a” /]נראה לי שעצבנתי אותו. I think I annoyed him. How about annoying? That’s מעצבן[audioclip…

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