[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]לְשַׁכְנֵעַ To succumb or to surrender, in Hebrew, is the נפעל verb להיכנע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]אנחנו לא ניכנע! We will not surrender! להיכנע appears in Biblical Hebrew, where it means to humble oneself, which is what one does when surrendering. The word’s root is כ.נ.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]. But since the causative הפעיל usage…
תְּאוֹמִים Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for twins is תְּאוֹמִים for a male or mixed pair, and תְּאוֹמוֹת for a female twins. A single twin is תְּאוֹם for a male and תְּאוֹמָה for a female, as in: יֵשׁ לְךָ תְּאוֹם? Do you have a twin? The…
אַשְׁמָה, לְהַאֲשִׁים Note the similarity between the English word shame and the Hebrew word אָשֵׁם (ah-SHEM). The Hebrew word describes a male as guilty. A guilty female would be אֲשֵׁמָה (ah-sheh-MAH). Guilt, that nasty feeling that might nevertheless provoke us to do good, is אַשְׁמָה. One might say, יֵשׁ לִי רִגְשֵׁי אַשְׁמָה (yesh lee…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/מתאים-בול-#.m4a” /]מַתְאִים בּוּל I had trouble finding an English equivalent for the expression מתאים בול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/מתאים-בול-#.m4a” /] – literally, fitting, bull(seye)! Anyway, here it is in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/מתאים-בול-#.m4a” /]הוא מתאים בול למה שאנחנו מחפשים. He fits exactly for what we’re looking for. מתאים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/מתאים-בול-#.m4a” /] comes from the הפעיל verb להתאים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/מתאים-בול-#.m4a” /] – to…