how to say “the United Kingdom” in Hebrew
לֶאֱכוֹל אֶת הָעוּגָה וּלְהַשְׁאִיר אֹתָהּ שְׁלֵמָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Sometimes we want it all. But you can’t have your cake and eat it too… or אִי אֶפְשָׁר לֶאֱכוֹל אֶת הָעוּגָה וּלְהַשְׁאִיר אֹתָהּ שְׁלֵמָה. Literally – It’s not possible to eat the cake and leave it complete. listen …
having trouble seeing the print? רַךְ How’s your Hebrew? 10 spots available per course. Sign up now! The Torah portion to be read tomorrow around the Jewish world tells that עֵינֵי לֵאָה רַכּוֹת (eh-ee-NEH-ee leh-AH rah-KOHT) – Leah’s eyes were soft. רכות is the plural form of the word רַך (rahkh), meaning soft or…
חינם, חירות, חופש If you’ve been to Jerusalem in the past couple of years, you may have eaten at a low-budget pizza parlor called פִּיצָה כִּמְעַט חִינָם (pizza keem-AHT hee-NAHM) – almost-free pizza. Their prices are actually much lower than those of their competitors. But they’re still not free. Not kosher…
having trouble seeing the print? כִּרְטוּס Adam from RustyMike Radio likes to poke fun at the Israeli tendency to turn any noun into a verb – as in the case of the internet-derived slang term, לְפַסְבֵּק (leh-fahs-BEK) – to Facebook someone. As banal as that example may be, it points out a morphological process more sophisticated than…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שיפוצניק-1.m4a” /]שִׁפּוּצְנִיק Perhaps you know the Hebrew word for to improve something – לשפר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שיפוצניק-2.m4a” /]. The word’s root – ש.פ.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שיפוצניק-3.m4a” /] – means beauty, so that we might understand לשפר as to make something more beautiful or good. Another word that has to do with improvement, whose root starts with the first two letters in לשפר, is לשפץ[audioclip…