[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אתה-צוחק-עלי-1.m4a” /]אַתָּה צוֹחֵק עָלַי? In Hebrew, when we talk about making fun of someone, we talk literally about laughing on them. So to make fun of is לצחוק על[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אתה-צוחק-עלי-2.m4a” /]. For example, if a man were stopped by a police officer for running a stop sign but proceeded to argue with the cop’s grammar, the cop…
having trouble seeing the print? שִׁמּוּשִׁי Level 4 Hebrew course opening in Tel Aviv this Sunday! If you’re conversant in Hebrew, you most likely know the Hebrew word for to use something – לְהִשְׁתַּמֵּש (leh-heesh-tah-MESH), as in הִיא מִשְׁתַּמֶּשֶׁת בָּעֵט עַכְשָׁו (hee meesh-tah-MEH-shet bah-ET ahkh-SHAHV) – she is using the pen now. The root is ש.מ.ש…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/כיסוי-עיניים-#.m4a” /]כִּיסּוּי עֵינַיִים The Hebrew expression for blindfold is כיסוי עיניים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/כיסוי-עיניים-#.m4a” /], literally covering of eyes. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/כיסוי-עיניים-#.m4a” /]במטוסים מחלקים כיסויי עיניים כדי שאנשים יוכלו לישון. On planes they give out blindfolds so people can sleep. כיסוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/כיסוי-עיניים-#.m4a” /] is a noun form of the פיעל verb לכסות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/כיסוי-עיניים-#.m4a” /], of the root…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפני-שבועיים-#.m4a” /]לִפְנֵי שְׁבוּעַיִם Words like on, in, of and from – prepositions – can be quite a pain to translate, especially between languages as different as English and Hebrew. Take, for example, the word on. In Hebrew, this could be על[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפני-שבועיים-#.m4a” /] – physically on something, but it could also be -ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפני-שבועיים-#.m4a” /] – such…