how to say “baby carriage” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /]אָבוֹת Yesterday we saw the words for mom – אמא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /], mother – אם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /] and אמהות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /] – mothers. What about dad? He’s אבא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /] (also from Aramaic), while father is אב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /] and fathers is אבות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /]. Forefathers is אבות ראשונים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/אבות-#.m4a” /], or simply…
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having trouble seeing the print? לְחוֹקֵק Never experienced Ulpan La-Inyan? We’re offering free demo classes throughout the summer. The essential Hebrew word for law is חוֹק (khohk). Employing the root ח.ו.ק (kh.w.k) in a variation of an active-intensive פִּעֵל verb form, we get the word לְחוֹקֵק – to legislate or to create law (leh-khoh-KEK).https://ulpan.com/piel/.html I say “variation”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחבל-מתאבד-1.m4a” /]מְחַבֵּל מִתְאַבֵּד The expression suicide bomber aptly described the terrorists of the second Intifada in Israel of the early 2000s. Today’s attackers are just as willing to die in order to murder Jews, but they tend to use knives and cars instead of bombs. The Hebrew equivalent of suicide bomber applies to both brands of terrorist: מחבל מתאבד[audioclip…
לסנוור עִוֵּר (ee-VEHR) for a male and עִוֶּרֶת (ee-VEH-ret) for a female are the Hebrew words for someone who is blind. By contrast, to blind someone is (le-sahn-VEHR). This is a very old word; it comes up in next week’s Torah portion, where the angels visiting Lot strike the Sodomites with blindness – סַנְוֵרִים…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לקרוא-לילד-בשמו-1.m4a” /]לִקְרוֹא לַיֶּלֶד בִּשְׁמוֹ In researching the English expression to call a spade a spade, I discovered that it might be offensive to some. So let’s skip straight to the parallel Hebrew term. לקרוא לילד בשמו[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לקרוא-לילד-בשמו-1.m4a” /] means literally to call the boy by his name. We use it when we want to stop beating around the bush…