listen and repeat.having trouble seeing the print? הִתְנַהֲגוּת Check out our spring and summer courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat by mikebaird To behave is to conduct oneself in a certain way. It is therefore not surprising that the Hebrew word for to behave comes from the Biblical root meaning conduct or drive – נ.ה.ג (n.h.g). To behave is לְהִתְנַהֵג (leh-heet-nah-HEG), a…
לנסוע After my six days in Beit Alpha in the north of Israel (i.e. a two-hour ride from the center), I got on a bus out of the absorption center en route to Beit She’an, then a bus from Beit She’an to Jerusalem, and now I’m riding a third bus to family in Kfar…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/אותיות-#.m4a” /]אוֹתִיּוֹת The Hebrew word for the type of letter appearing in an alphabet is אות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/אותיות-#.m4a” /] (a letter written to someone is מכתב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/אותיות-#.m4a” /]). In the plural it’s אותיות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/אותיות-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/אותיות-#.m4a” /]יש עשרים ושתיים אותיות בשפה העברית. There are twenty-two letters in the Hebrew language. Now, the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-1.m4a” /]לְיַדֵּעַ This week we’ve seen the root י.ד.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-2.m4a” /] meaning knowledge put to use in a variety of words, including להודיע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-3.m4a” /] – to notify, מודעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-4.m4a” /] – advertisement and ידיעות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-5.m4a” /] – one of the words for news. Plugging this root into the active-intensive verb form, we get ליידע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-1.m4a” /] – to inform. For…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /]לְהִפָּטֵר מִ- The Hebrew word for to get rid of something is להיפטר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /]. It always has -מ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /] – from or of – before the next word. It’s a נפעל verb, so that in the past tense it looks like this: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/להיפטר-מ-#.m4a” /]נפטרתי מכל הדברים המיותרים שישבו במחסן. I got…