how to say “I’ll get back to you” in Hebrew




[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חקלאות-1.m4a” /]חַקְלָאוּת Scientific terms in English tend to borrow from Latin and Greek. Agriculture, for example, comes from the Latin agri cultura meaning cultivation of land. Hebrew follows suit in this tendency, borrowing from Aramaic’s word for field – חקל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חקלאות-2.m4a” /] – to create חקלאות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חקלאות-3.m4a” /] – agriculture. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חקלאות-4.m4a” /]בגוש קטיף השיגו דברים…
having trouble seeing the print? לְלֹא הֶרֶף Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program Last week we saw the Hebrew expressions for consistently. “יְשוּעַת הַשֵּׁם כְּהֶרֶף עַיִן” “Divine salvation is as the blink of an eye.” Another useful expression is that for incessantly or continuously: לְלֹא הֶרֶף. The word הֶרֶף in this expression appears in Biblical Hebrew, where…
having trouble seeing the print? מַרְהִיב Ulpan La-Inyan in Jerusalem Last night I watched Academy Award Best-Picture nominee, Life of Pi. I was more impressed with the existential, religious and deeply-human aspects of the film; nevertheless, the special effects were spectacular. One Hebrew word for spectacular is מַרְהִיב . This active-causative הִפְעִיל verb derives from the root ר.ה.ב…
מִצַּד שֵׁנִי, לְעֻמַּת זֹאת Can’t read Hebrew yet? On the one hand, the snow is pretty. But on the other hand, it’s cold and I prefer warmth. English uses the metaphor of hands to speak about the two sides of a dilemma. Hebrew uses sides: מִצַּד אֶחָד – on the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /]יוֹם רָגִיל The Hebrew word for day is יום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /], while the word for regular is רגיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /]. Thus, a regular day is יום רגיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/יום-רגיל-#.m4a” /]איך היה היום שלי? מה אני אגיד, היה יום רגיל. How was my day? What can (will) I say? It was a regular…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ירק-1.m4a” /]יֶרֶק What are the primary colors? That’s subject to debate, but green – ירוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ירק-2.m4a” /] – is generally considered one of them. In the feminine ירוק becomes ירוקה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ירק-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ירק-4.m4a” /]יש להם בית ירוק עם גינה ירוקה. They have a green house with a green garden. Green is the color…