how to say “a new year” in Hebrew

Learn Hebrew Online: All That You Need to Know The online world provides us news and entertainment. But now, it is also a medium where we can learn virtually anything. Learning a new language is so easy, when you have so many options to choose from. But when you are learning a language that possesses…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/התכתבות-1.m4a” /]הִתְכַּתְּבוּת, תִּכְתּוֹבֶת My first serious exposure to the French language was at Yeshiva University, where I took a class on the poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarme and encountered the poem, Correspondances. French at the time was quite elusive to me – one of the only concrete things I learned was that in English we end the word with…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ממוצע-#.m4a” /]מְמֻצָּע The Hebrew word for average is ממוצע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ממוצע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ממוצע-#.m4a” /]האדם הממוצע לא מבין בפיננסים. The average person isn’t much of an expert in finance. This word comes from the root מ.צ.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ממוצע-#.m4a” /] and is formed using the פועל verb structure.

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/לקלוט-1.m4a” /]לִקְלוֹט The word לקלוט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/לקלוט-1.m4a” /] means literally to absorb or to take in, for example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/לקלוט-2.m4a” /]החור באדמה נועד לקלוט כדורי גולף. The hole in the ground is meant to catch (take in) golf balls. But לקלוט also comes in handy when referring to one’s ability to “get” that which is said to…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרירי-1.m4a” /]שְׁרִירִי The Hebrew word for muscle is שריר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרירי-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרירי-3.m4a” /]מתחתי שריר ברגל, אני לא רוצה לזוז. I pulled (stretched) a muscle in my (the) leg, I don’t want to move. Likewise, someone muscular is שרירי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרירי-1.m4a” /] if he’s a male, and שרירית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שרירי-4.m4a” /] if she’s a female. For…