how to say “living things” in Hebrew
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| Spelling seems to vary. I’m no expert on Yiddish. |

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| Spelling seems to vary. I’m no expert on Yiddish. |

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תכניות-1.m4a” /]תָּכְנִיּוֹת I used to think that the word for content or substance – תוכן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תכניות-2.m4a” /] – derives from the word תוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תכניות-3.m4a” /] – inside. Makes sense, right? Contents are inside something. Except that תוכן appears in Biblical Hebrew, where it means measurement or quota. In any case, the related word תכנית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תכניות-4.m4a” /] – plan – has elements of both contents and measurement: a good plan…
הַשְׁכָּמָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? To wake up early is לְהַשְׁכִּים , an active-causative verb of the root שׁ.כ.מ (sh.k.m). Here’s a Biblical example: וַיַּּשְׁכֵּם אַבְרָהָם בַּבֹּקֶר וַיַּחֲבֹשׁ אֶת חֲמֹרוֹ… And Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey… (Genesis 22:3) Likewise, the act of getting…
מִגְרָשׁ מִשְׂחָקִים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגרש-משחקים4.mp3″ /] A game in Hebrew is מִשְׂחָק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגרש-משחקים5.mp3″ /], from the root שׂ.ח.ק (s.kh.k) meaning playing. A court or a lot is a מִגְרָשׁ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגרש-משחקים6.mp3″ /], of the root ג.ר.שׁ (g.r.s) meaning expulsion or sending away (linguists theorize that people would send their animals away to graze in the מגרש, which was…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a” /]רוֹמָן The Hebrew word for a novel that people read is רומן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a” /]. It comes from the Russian, which comes from the French, which derives from Latin. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a” /]מי יכתוב את הרומן הישראלי הגדול? Who will write the Great Israeli Novel? Novel in the sense of new is חדש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/רומן-#.m4a”…