how to say “hotel” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/זוועתי-#.m4a” /]זְוָעָתִי The Hebrew word for bad is רע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/זוועתי-#.m4a” /], but you’ll hardly ever hear it. Instead, you’ll get more colorful, exaggerated expressions like זוועה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/זוועתי-#.m4a” /] – a horror, which in adjective form is זוועתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/זוועתי-#.m4a” /] – horrendous. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/זוועתי-#.m4a” /]הציור הזה הוא פשוט זוועתי. This painting is simply horrendous. For…

Note: Monday’s dose had a typo: מעטמי ביטחון – for security reasons – should read מטעמי ביטחון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להפיק-2.m4a” /]. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להפיק-3.m4a” /]לְהָפִיק סֶרֶט Those versed in Talmud will surely recognize the Hebrew root פ.ו.ק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להפיק-4.m4a” /] meaning come out, so that in the causative הפעיל verb form, להפיק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להפיק-5.m4a” /] means to bring out or to produce (in the Talmud’s Aramaic…