how to say “sophisticated” in Hebrew
לוֹחֵם Hebrew’s word for warrior or fighter is לוחם when referring to a male and לוחמת when referring to a female. Israelis use the term to distinguish combat soldiers from non-combat soldiers, whom they call (not always with admiration) jobniks: הוא היה בצבא לוחם או ג’ובניק? In the army, was he a fighter or a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a” /]לְהִתְפַּנּוֹת If you’ve taken our Level 1 course, you know forms of the simple verb לפנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a” /] – to turn. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a” /]אתה צריך לפנות שמאלה ברמזור. You (a male) need to turn left at the light. לפנות in a passive sense means available or turned from the other (busy) direction – פנוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/להתפנותב-#.m4a”…
מַסָּע If you know a little Hebrew, you’re probably familiar with the word for to travel – לִנְסוֹע (leen-SOH-ah). A journey or trek is a מַסָּע (mah-SAH). This is not a journey in the sense of driving in your convertible from Tel Aviv up the coast to Netanya. Rather, this is the type of journey knights used…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/לאלתר-#.m4a” /]לְאַלְתֵּר The Hebrew word for to improvise is לאלתר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/לאלתר-#.m4a” /], a פיעל verb of the four-letter root א.ל.ת.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/לאלתר-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/לאלתר-#.m4a” /]כשאין ברירה, חייבים לאלתר. When there’s no choice, we must improvise. You may be thinking, what kind of Hebrew verb has a four-letter root? Don’t they all have…
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