Throughout the country
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| the Tel Aviv boardwalk on a hazy day |
Now it’s raining.
The Hebrew word for haze is אוֹבֶך (OH-vekh).
מִשְׁקְפֵי שֶׁמֶשׁ Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for glasses is מִשְׁקָפַיִם , of the root שׁ.ק.פ (sh.k.p) having to do with visibility. Sunglasses, likewise, are ׁמִשְׁקְפֵי שֶׁמֶש – literally, glasses of the sun. For example: מֻמְלָץ לְהָבִיא מִשְׁקְפֵי שֶׁמֶשׁ לְבִקּוּרְכֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּחָדְשֵׁי הַקַּיִץ. It’s recommended to bring sunglasses for…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כתרים-1.m4a” /]כְּתָרִים Since my genes are on my side as far as visits to the dentist go, I had to use Google Images to make sure that tooth crowns actually existed. I imagined them as gold and silver tooth encasements, but it turns out that such shiny conspicuous pieces are found mostly in the mouths of…
If you’ve been following קצת עברית (Ktzat Ivrit) for a while, you likely know the word for site – אֲתָר (ah-TAHR). The word is borrowed from Aramaic, creating a synonym for מָקוֹם (mah-KOHM) – place. To refer to a website in Hebrew, you’d say אֲתָר אִינְטֶרְנֶט (ah-TAHR EEN-tehr-net). To locate something or someone is לְאַתֵּר (le-ah-TEHR). For…
having trouble seeing the print? הֲשָׂמָה DEADLINE TOMORROW! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! photo by Unhindered by Talent To put or to place something down, in Hebrew, is the simple פעל verb, לָשִׂים (lah-SEEM). Its root is שׂ.י.מ (s.y.m) Applying that ancient Hebrew word to the commercial world of today, we get לְהָשׂים (leh-hah-SEEM) – to place a…
