10 Hebrew Color Words 1. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אביב-#.m4a” /]אדום – red Colors describe something, so they’re adjectives. Which means that in Hebrew there are two versions – masculine and feminine. Red in the masculine is אדום, as in הים האדום – the Red Sea. In the feminine it’s אדומה, as in: כיפה אדומה – Little…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /]חוֹם נָמוּךְ The Hebrew word for short (in height) low is נמוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /]מפלס הכינרת היה נמוך מאוד. The (water) level of the Sea of Galilee was very low. A fever is חום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /] – the same word as heat. Thus a low fever or a low-grade fever is חום נמוך[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מקלחת-#.m4a” /]מִקְלַחַת This week we’ve seen a series of words that follow a pattern: משמרת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מקלחת-#.m4a” /] – shift, מברשת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מקלחת-#.m4a” /] – brush, משקפת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מקלחת-#.m4a” /] – goggles/binoculars and מקלדת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מקלחת-#.m4a” /] – keyboard. The word for shower – מקלחת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מקלחת-#.m4a” /] – would also sound like the others, but since its final root letter…
שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for chain (Biblical as well as Modern) is שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת listen and repeat. Say it out loud a few times. As a chain is a string of connected loops (לוּלָאוֹת listen and repeat), the word שרשרת itself conveys a sense of pieces being connected to one another – with…