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– חלק מעליית הנוער הגיעו ארצה באוניות מעפילים.
– סבתא, הכרת אנשים
שעלו ארצה ככה?
– כן, וגם אתה מכיר אחת מהן.
– את מי?
– אותי.
– Some of Youth Aliyah arrived to Israel via maapilim ships.
– Grandma, did you know people who made aliyah that way?
– Yes, and you know one of them two.
– Who?
– Me.
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
צָב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-1.mp3″ /] Strictly speaking, צָב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-1.mp3″ /] refers to a tortoise – a land turtle – while צַב יָם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-2.mp3″ /] – literally, sea tortoise – is a turtle that swims. But Israelis tend to use צב for both. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-3.mp3″ /]כְּשֶׁהָיִתִי יֶלֶד, מְאֹד אָהַבְתִּי אֶת צָבֵי הַנִּינְגָ’ה. When I was…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /]תַּנּוּר חִמּוּם Lots of apartments in Israel don’t have central heating. Instead, people warm up with a space heater – תנור חימום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /]. This expression means literally heating oven, where תנור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /] means oven and חימום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /] means heating. חימום is a noun form of the פיעל verb לחמם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /] – to heat. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/לחבוש-כובע-#.m4a” /]לַחְבֹּשׁ כּוֹבַע Yesterday we saw that there’s a special wear word for shoes: לנעול נעליים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/לחבוש-כובע-#.m4a” /] means to put on shoes. There’s another such word for putting on a hat or head covering: לחבוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/לחבוש-כובע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/לחבוש-כובע-#.m4a” /]אני רק צריך לנעול נעליים ולחבוש כובע, ואני יוצא. I just need to put on (my)…
תַּחֲזִית Hear this word pronounced If you’ve listened at all to Israeli radio, you’ve certainly heard the announcers utter the words הַתַּחֲזִית, מִיָּד (tah-khah-ZEET mee-YAHD) – The forecast, right away. The word תחזית comes from the root ח.ז.ה (kh.z.h), a root close in meaning to ר.א.ה (r.a.h), seeing. A forecast is that which is foreseen. The prophets…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אני-מקווה-שכן-1.m4a” /]אֲנִי מְקַוֶּה שֶׁכֵּן Israel’s national anthem is called התקווה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אני-מקווה-שכן-2.m4a” /] – literally, the hope. To hope is the active-intensive verb לקוות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אני-מקווה-שכן-3.m4a” /], so that I hope is אני מקווה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אני-מקווה-שכן-4.m4a” /] if you’re a male, and אני מקווה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אני-מקווה-שכן-5.m4a” /] if you’re a female. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אני-מקווה-שכן-6.m4a” /]האם הבנק פתוח היום? אני מקווה…