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how to say “personal space” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מרחב-אישי-1.m4a” /]מֶרְחָב אִישִׁי If you’ve got some basic Hebrew, you probably know the word for street – רחוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מרחב-אישי-2.m4a” /]. This word’s root ר.ח.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מרחב-אישי-3.m4a” /] means wide, so that it also forms the basis of the word for a space, מרחב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מרחב-אישי-4.m4a” /], a masculine word. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מרחב-אישי-5.m4a” /]בכפרים יש מרחבים פתוחים. In the…
daily video – how to say “the dollar rate” in Hebrew
To slow down the audio, start playing the video and then click the settings icon at the bottom-right of the video and change the playback speed. תמליל של הכתוביות בעברית אהלן חברים יקרים ראינו שהמילה "שער", יש לה שתי משמעויות, אחת שער כמו השער הזה והשנייה שער - "שער דולר" שער, זאת אומרת מדד מסוים...
how to say “to blush” in Hebrew
לְהַסְמִיק Can’t read Hebrew yet? Many Human beings are masters at masking their emotions. Still, there are some involuntary responses that very few are able to control. One of these is blushing, whose Hebrew word – to blush – is לְהַסְמִיק . This is an active-causative verb of the root…
how to say “to limit oneself” in Hebrew
It’s no fun to limit ourselves (no cake today!), but hey, how else are we supposed to grow? (or shrink, in the case of the cake) A border or limit is גבול, as in: השמים הם הגבול. The sky’s the limit. To set up a limit – to limit – is להגביל, so that to limit…
what would you call a “nice person” in Hebrew?
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how to say “gut feeling” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תחושת-בטן-1.m4a” /]תְּחוּשַׁת בֶּטֶן Yesterday we saw that חוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תחושת-בטן-5.m4a” /] means sense or knack. A related word is תחושה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תחושת-בטן-2.m4a” /] – sensation or feeling. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תחושת-בטן-3.m4a” /]היא תמיד אומרת דברים שנותנים תחושה טובה. She always says things that give a good feeling. Likewise, a gut feeling is תחושת בטן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תחושת-בטן-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תחושת-בטן-4.m4a” /]למה ללכת?…