how to “make a dream come true” in Hebrew


[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/איחולים-#.m4a” /]אִיחוּלִים To wish, in Hebrew, is the פיעל verb לאחל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/איחולים-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/איחולים-#.m4a” /]אנחנו מאחלים לכולם שנה טובה. We wish everyone a good year. What about a wish? That’s איחול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/איחולים-#.m4a” /], with wishes being איחולים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/איחולים-#.m4a” /]. And when איחולים appears in a phrase such as my wishes, the ending of…
כּוֹתֶרֶת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The word title has a few meanings in English. Here I’ll focus on the one that you find on the cover of a book or at the top of a newspaper article… also called a headline. The word is כּוֹתֶרֶת listen and repeat, whose root…
having trouble seeing the print? חוֹל listen and repeat Last week, I wrote a post on the Hebrew term for mermaid and how that relates to the name of the Israeli coastal town, בַּת יָם ( listen and repeat) – Bat Yam. Here’s a post about sand, which inspired the name for Bat Yam’s next-door neighbor town, חוֹלוֹן ( listen and…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להצטייד-1.m4a” /]נָא לְהִצְטַיֵּד Last week, we saw the Hebrew term for running shoes – נעלי ריצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להצטייד-2.m4a” /], or more commonly, נעלי ספורט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להצטייד-3.m4a” /]. Now, suppose you’re a youth-group counselor, and you’re taking your group of young teens on an overnight field trip. It’s the fall, so you want to make sure they all come prepared with warm clothing….
having trouble seeing the print? מִנּוּן Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program In English, food is given in servings, while medicine is given in doses. The Hebrew word for serving is מָנָה, deriving from the word לִמְנוֹת, an active-simple פָּעַל verb meaning to count (a synonym of לִסְפּוֹר, also a פעל verb). For example: אֲבַקֵּשׁ מָנָה סָלָט….
לְזַהוֹת listen to this word pronounced Explosives were planted yesterday on a public phone opposite בִּנְיָנֵי הָאוּמָה (been-yah-NEH-ee hah-oo-MAH) – The Buildings of the Nation. Had a man not noticed the suspicious-looking phone and alerted a group of teenagers standing by it to move away, the tragic attack of pure terror could have…