How to say “how to party”in Hebrew
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חַג הָעַצְמָאוּת שָׂמֵח (hahg hah-ahts-mah-OOT sah-MEH-ah) – happy Yom Haatzmaut!
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַגִּישׁ, לְשָׁרֵת As often happens when crossing linguistic boundaries, the single English verb to serve has several translations in Hebrew, corresponding to several different meanings of the word in English. להגיש There’s to serve as in to give something to someone else, such as a meal – לְהַגִּישׁ אֲרוּחָהhis…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/שגרירות-#.m4a” /]שַׁגְרִירוּת The Hebrew word for ambassador was coined by former Prime Minister of Israel, Moshe Sharett. He took the Biblical-Hebrew root ש.ג.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/שגרירות-#.m4a” /] meaning offspring or offshoot, used his imagination and came up with שגריר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/שגרירות-#.m4a” /] – someone sent off to another country to represent his/her own. And embassy? That’s שגרירות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/שגרירות-#.m4a” /]. For…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְקָרֵר I love it when the weather gets warm – כשמזג האוויר מתחמם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-2.m4a” /]. The reflexive verb להתחמם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-3.m4a” /] derives from חום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-4.m4a” /] – heat. Likewise, to cool down is להתקרר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-1.m4a” /] – also a reflexive verb – from קור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-5.m4a” /] – cold. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתקרר-6.m4a” /]חכה עד שהמרק יתקרר. Wait till the soup…
קָרוֹב לְוַדַּאי Can’t read Hebrew yet? Hebrew has a way of sounding a bit overconfident sometimes. We use surely to mean probably, as in: הוּא בֶּטַח יַגִּיעַ תּוֹךְ שְׁתֵּי דַּקּוֹת. He’ll probably (surely) arrive within two minutes. And we mean to say more than likely, we’re literally saying close to…