how to say “juicy” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מאה-אחוז-1.m4a” /]מֵאָה אָחוּז, מֵאָה אֲחוּזִים The Hebrew word for percent is אחוז[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מאה-אחוז-2.m4a” /], which literally means grasped or held: a percent is one grasped of a hundred. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מאה-אחוז-3.m4a” /]האם אני רוצה לצאת לטיול? מאה אחוז! Do I want go on the trip? One hundred percent! Now, אחוז here appears in the singular. Also acceptable would be to…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/נוגע-ללב-#.m4a” /]נְגִיעָה, נוֹגֵעַ לַלֵּב The basic Hebrew word for to touch is לגעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/נוגע-ללב-#.m4a” /] or לנגוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/נוגע-ללב-#.m4a” /], two version of a simple verb whose root is נ.ג.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/נוגע-ללב-#.m4a” /]. The word for touching in the basic sense – the verbal noun – is נגיעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/נוגע-ללב-#.m4a” /]. But touching in the emotional sense is נוגע ללב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/נוגע-ללב-#.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/אזרחות-#.m4a” /]אֶזְרָחוּת The word אזרח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/אזרחות-#.m4a” /] appears already in Biblical Hebrew, where it refers to a person native to a particular land or people. Today a person can become an אזרח or אזרחית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/אזרחות-#.m4a” /] – a citizen of a country (male and female, respectively), without having been born there. And citizenship? That’s אזרחות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/אזרחות-#.m4a” /]….

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מעשה-גבורה-1.m4a” /]מַעֲשֵׂה גְּבוּרָה If you know a bit of Yiddish, you’ve probably heard the term bubbe meise. Meise, which means fable, comes from the Hebrew word מעשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מעשה-גבורה-2.m4a” /] which means tale or story… as well as action and act. Perhaps you’ve spotted the root ע.ש.ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מעשה-גבורה-3.m4a” /] – doing – in the word מעשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מעשה-גבורה-4.m4a” /]. Thus an act of courage is מעשה גבורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מעשה-גבורה-1.m4a”…