[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ארצנו-הקטנטונת-1.m4a” /]אַרְצֵנוּ הַקְּטַנְטוֹנֶת The word ארץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ארצנו-הקטנטונת-2.m4a” /] means earth as well as country or land. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ארצנו-הקטנטונת-3.m4a” /]ארץ ישראל יפה. The land of Israel is beautiful. The word for small is קטן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ארצנו-הקטנטונת-4.m4a” /]; little, said in a loving way, is קטנטן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ארצנו-הקטנטונת-5.m4a” /] for a masculine object and קטנטונת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ארצנו-הקטנטונת-6.m4a” /] for a feminine object such as…
להתרענן This morning teaching at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, some of my students (well, Yogi’s students – I was substituting) had some coffee or needed to get some fresh air. Truth is, so did I. We all freshened up. To become freshed in Hebrew is לְהִתְרַעֲנֵן (le-heet-rah-ah-NEHN). For example רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה הוּא זְמַן…
having trouble seeing the print? עֲבַרְיָן This one’s for Lauren, Ulpan La-Inyan‘s administrative assistant and a collaborator in a new translation of the auspicious Yom Kippur prayer, כָּל נִדְרֵי (kohl need-REH-ee). The Hebrew word עֲבַרְיָנִים (ah-vahr-yah-NEEM) appears in the introductory line to that famous prayer. It is usually translated as criminals, though that translation lacks…
מצווה When an Israeli teen gets a letter from the military to show up, s/he receives a צַו גִּיּוּס (tsahv g-ee-YOOS) – literally, this is an order of recruitment. A mitzvah (in Hebrew it’s מִצְוָה – meets-VAH), in the purest sense of the word, is a commandment. See the connection between the words צו and…
having trouble seeing the print? הַגְדָּרָה brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online Courses starting Sunday around the country! Yesterday’s entry introduced the word for fence or, more abstractly, framework. The root is ג.ד.ר (g.d.r). A definition is something that brings clarity to a word or idea: without definition, an idea runs freely, unattainable…
דָּת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? We’re conducting a survey to help us understand the needs of Hebrew learners like yourself.If you’d take a few minutes to fill out this survey, we’d really appreciate it! You might think that the Hebrew word for religion would be among the most common in the…