how to say “inside” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger June 16, 2022June 10, 2022

When I go to a cafe with table service in Israel, they ask me where I’d like to sit – בפנים או בחוץ?
outside or inside? (unless it’s raining, I say בחוץ
).

בפנים
means inside when it stands alone, as in:

כולם בפנים.

Everyone is inside.

But בתוך
means inside something – or inside of something.

For example:

הוא נמצא בתוך הבניין.

He (is located) inside the building.

בתוך can take on a pronoun ending, as in בתוכי
– inside of me, בתוכנו
– inside of us, etc.

Outside of is -מחוץ ל
, as in:

היא עומודת מחוץ לבניין.

She’s standing outside the building.

how to say “denial” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger December 30, 2021December 26, 2021

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הכחשה-#.m4a” /]הַכְחָשָׁה To deny, in Hebrew, is the הפעיל verb להכחיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הכחשה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הכחשה-#.m4a” /]היא הכחישה את מה שהוא אמר לגביה. She denied what he said about her. The noun form of להכחיש is הכחשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הכחשה-#.m4a” /] – denial. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הכחשה-#.m4a” /]הוא לגמרי בהכחשה לגבי מה שקרה. He’s totally in…

how to say “journey” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger May 21, 2017May 20, 2017

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מסע-1.m4a” /]מַסָּע If you’ve traveled anywhere in the world, you have probably met an Israeli traveling too. Israelis love to travel. The Hebrew word for to travel when on vacation is לטייל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מסע-2.m4a” /]. But the generic word for to travel is לנסוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מסע-3.m4a” /]. And while in modern times לנסוע refers to travel by vehicle, in Biblical times it meant simply to…

how to say “to meet” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 9, 2018October 17, 2018

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להיפגש-#.m4a” /]לִפְגּוֹשׁ, לְהִפָּגֵשׁ Hebrew has two words for to meet: לפגוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להיפגש-#.m4a” /] and להיפגש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להיפגש-#.m4a” /]. While לפגוש is to meet someone or something, להיפגש is to meet with someone. לפגוש take a form of את[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להיפגש-#.m4a” /] after it, while להיפגש would take a form of עם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להיפגש-#.m4a” /]. And לפגוש is often more abrupt, often given…

how to say “to pamper” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger May 12, 2013October 28, 2018

having trouble seeing the print? לְפַנֵּק This one’s for you, Mom. In many countries all over the world, it’s Mothers Day – יוֹם הָאֵם , in Hebrew. Here’s a song by Arik Einstein dedicated to his mother. I venture to say it might be sung for most mothers. One of the lines in the song is:…

daily video – how to say “to say something (make a comment)” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 1, 2020January 30, 2021

To slow down the audio, start playing the video and then click the settings icon at the bottom-right of the video and change the playback speed. תמליל של הכתוביות בעברית אהלן חברים יקרים אם אתם אוהבים לקבל ביקורת תרימו יד לא הרמתם יד? אתם לא לבד אף אחד לא אוהב לקבל ביקורת המילה "להעיר" עם...

how to say “instructions” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger February 2, 2015October 23, 2018

הוֹרָאוֹת Can’t read Hebrew yet? The word תּוֹרָה comes from the root י.ר.ה (y.r.h) meaning instruction, so that the Torah could also be called the Book of Instruction. Here’s a video about this. This same root gives rise to the common word for instruction, הוֹרָאָה , which derives from the…

When I go to a cafe with table service in Israel, they ask me where I’d like to sit – בפנים או בחוץ? outside or inside? (unless it’s raining, I say בחוץ).

בפנים means inside when it stands alone, as in: