how to say “human touch” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לילה-לבן-#.m4a” /]לַיְלָה לָבָן I didn’t know what a white night was until I came to live in Israel, where there’s an annual all-night event in Tel Aviv, the White City. A white night refers to a sleepless night or a night that is never fully dark such as those in summer in high latitudes.  In Hebrew, this is…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-1.m4a” /]לְיַצֵּא The simple verb לצאת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-2.m4a” /], of the root י.צ.א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-3.m4a” /], means to go out. Thus an exit is a יציאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-4.m4a” /]. As part of a global economy, Modern Hebrew needs a word for to export, so it plugs י.צ.א into the active-intensive form to create לייצא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-5.m4a” /]החברה התחילה…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /]חַיְשָׁן Here’s another professional/character term, taking a Hebrew root and adding the ן-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /] or נית-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /] ending: חיישן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /], a sensor, of the root ח.ו.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /] (or ח.י.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /]). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/חיישן-#.m4a” /]בנתב”ג יש חיישנים שמזהים אנשים בלי מסיכה. At Ben Gurion Airport there are sensors…