how to say “a drummer” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-1.m4a” /]מְתוֹפֵף

Yesterday we saw the word for drums – תופים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-2.m4a” /].

A drummer is a מתופף when referring to a male, and מתופפת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-3.m4a” /] when it’s a female. These words also mean drumming, for example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-4.m4a” /]היא מתופפת בלהקה שלנו כבר עשר שנים.

She has been drumming with our band for ten years already.

מתופף follows the same structural pattern as מחוקק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-5.m4a” /] – a lawmaker, which derives from another word with a ו[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-6.m4a” /] letter in the middle, חוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-7.m4a” /] – law.

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