[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/לגרד-#.m4a” /]לְגָרֵד The word לגרד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/לגרד-#.m4a” /] means both to scratch and to itch. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/לגרד-#.m4a” /]דוד, אל תגרד את הגלד. David, don’t scratch the scab. and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/לגרד-#.m4a” /]העור שלי מגרד וזה מציק לי. My skin itches and it bothers me. לגרד is an active-intensive פיעל verb.
נְקוּדַּת מוֹצָא The Hebrew word מוצא means origin, as in: אני ממוצא אירפואי – לפחות בדורות האחרונים. I’m of European origin (descent) – at least in recent generations. Since the word for point is נקודה, point of origin – or starting point – is נקודת מוצא. For example: ניפגש בנקודת המוצא שסוכם, ומשם נצא לדרך. We’ll meet at…
עִבְרִית שׁוֹטֶפֶת, עִבְרִית רְהוּטָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-שוטפת-1.mp3″ /] To wash dishes is לִשְׁטוֹף כֵּלִים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-שוטפת-2.mp3″ /], where לשטוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-שוטפת-3.mp3″ /] means to clean or to rinse. Another meaning of the root שׁ.ט.פ (sh.t.p) is flow, so that one way of saying fluent Hebrew is עִבְרִית שׁוֹטֶפֶת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-שוטפת-4.mp3″ /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/עברית-שוטפת-5.mp3″ /]יֵשׁ לָהֶם עִבְרִית שׁוֹטֶפֶת….
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-1.m4a” /]צֶדֶק חֶבְרָתִי If company or society is חברה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-2.m4a” /], then social is חברתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-3.m4a” /] in the masculine and חברתית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-4.m4a” /] in the feminine. For example, a social network is רשת חברתית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-5.m4a” /]. Likewise, social justice is צדק חברתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-1.m4a” /], which itself was part of the slogan of המחאה החברתית[audioclip…
ח The letter ח”ת (het) is pronounced by most Hebrew speakers today the same way the כ is pronounced – like a kh sound (not found in Modern English). In some Jewish communities (North African, Yemenite), however, it is still pronounced just above the throat, with no voice – like a scratchy “h” sound. This…