how to say “delicious” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? לְאַיֵּשׁ highly recommended reference for further vocabulary growth If you read the title of this post and didn’t quite understand what I’m getting it, you’re probably not the only one. The word לְאַיֵּשׁ ( ) doesn’t really have a direct translation into English. The best I could come up with is to man and to staff,…
בּוֹ זְמַנִּית, בַּד בְּבַד Can’t read Hebrew yet? While Israelis sometimes say בְּאֹפֶן סִימוּלְטָנִי to express simultaneously or at the same time, they’re also likely to use the expression בּוֹ זְמַנִּית – literally, at that moment. Likewise, בּוֹ-זְמַנִּי means simultaneous. For example: הוּא מְסֻגָּל לְנַגֵּן בַּגִּיטָרָה וְלָשִׁיר בּוֹ-זְמַנִּית. He is…
קָהָל Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for audience is quite an ancient one, as Moses would address the audience – הַקָּהָל – of the wandering People of Israel for forty years in the desert. A modern example: הַקָּהָל מַקְשִׁיב. The audience is listening. The root ק.ה.ל (k.h.l)…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מנחה-#.m4a” /]מַנְחֶה If you were living in Israel during the days of the lockdowns, you certainly heard the word הנחיות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מנחה-#.m4a” /] – guidelines. הנחיות comes from the הפעיל verb להנחות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מנחה-#.m4a” /] – to guide, but also to facilitate or to moderate something like a discussion or a game. The person who facilitates or moderates is a מנחָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מנחה-#.m4a”…