how to say “a cooling trend” in Hebrew
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Jerusalem saw snow less than two weeks ago. Then it got warm enough to walk around in tee-shirts and sandals. But it’s getting cold again.
A cooling trend is a מְגַמַּת הִתְקָרְרוּת (meh-gah-MAHT heet-kah-reh-ROOT).
The word מְגַמָּה (meh-gah-MAH), one that appears in Biblical Hebrew, means a trend, tendency, direction of movement.
The word הִתְקָרְרוּת (heet-kah-reh-ROOT) comes from the word for cold as in “it’s cold outside” – קָר (kahr). Plugging the word קר into the התפעל form, we get a word with a back-and-forth reflexive quality – it’s as if we could see the cold spiraling down towards ice and snow.
