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how to say “Jerusalemite” in Hebrew
יְרוּשַׁלְמִי Can’t read Hebrew yet? One of the things that make residents of this city unique is their response to snow. While Torontonians and New Yorkers and Parisians get on with their daily lives when it snows, Jerusalemites scramble for days before the cold white stuff starts coming down, stocking up…
how to say “to come to a conclusion” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/להגיע-למסקנה-#.m4a” /]לְהַגִּיעַ לְמַסְקָנָה To come to a conclusion, in Hebrew, is להגיע למסקנה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/להגיע-למסקנה-#.m4a” /] – literally, to arrive at a conclusion, where מסקנה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/להגיע-למסקנה-#.m4a” /] means conclusion. But whereas in English this expression sounds a bit stiff and formal, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/להגיע-למסקנה-#.m4a” /]אחרי חישובים מדויקים הגענו למסקנה חד-משמעית. After precise calculations we arrived at an…
how do you say “cute” in Hebrew?
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חמוד-1.m4a” /]חָמוּד The Land of Israel has many names in the Bible, one of which is ארץ חמדה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חמוד-2.m4a” /] – translated roughly as the coveted land. The root ח.מ.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חמוד-3.m4a” /] means desire or coveting, as in the Biblical commandment לא תחמוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חמוד-4.m4a” /] – do not covet. ח.מ.ד is also the root of the words חמוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חמוד-1.m4a”…
how to say “to faint” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִתְעַלֵּף Learn to speak Hebrew with us: LOCAL courses in Israel DISTANCE courses online this week’s video dose of Hebrew! The Modern-Hebrew word for to faint is לְהִתְעַלֵּף , a reflexive-intensive הִתְפַּעֵל verb of the root ע.ל.פ (a.l.p). For example: הִיא הִתְעַלְּפָה בְּאֶמְצַע הָרְחוֹב. She fainted in the middle of the street….
how to say “to be jealous” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לקנא-#.m4a” /]לְקַנֵּא Like most of the emotions, to be jealous or to envy is a verb in Hebrew – the פיעל verb לקנא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לקנא-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לקנא-#.m4a” /]איזה צרות יש לו – אני לא מקנא בו. What problems he has – I (a male) don’t envy him. The word for jealousy is קנאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לקנא-#.m4a” /]….