how to say “hard drive” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

כּוֹנָן קָשִׁיחַ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כונן-קשיח-1.mp3″ /]

We’ve seen that while the generic Hebrew word for hard is קָשֶׁה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כונן-קשיח-2.mp3″ /], the word for tough, at least when describing a person, is קָשׁוּחַ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כונן-קשיח-3.mp3″ /], of the root ק.שׁ.ח. (k.sh.kh).

That same root forms the word for stiff or rigid – also hard – when describing an object – קָשִׁיחַ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כונן-קשיח-4.mp3″ /].

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כונן-קשיח-5.mp3″ /]קָנִיתִי דִּיסְק קָשִׁיחַ בִּמְחִיר מְצֻיָּן.

I bought a hard disk at an excellent price.

That’s the physical disk, but Google has taught us that a drive is not necessarily an object you can hold in your hand: in Hebrew, a hard drive is a כּוֹנָן קָשִׁיחַ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כונן-קשיח-1.mp3″ /].

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