how to say “to cling” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בית-זיקוק-1.m4a” /]בֵּית זִקּוּק The letters כ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בית-זיקוק-2.m4a” /] and ק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בית-זיקוק-3.m4a” /] sound alike in Modern Hebrew, when the כ is hard. In ancient times they sounded different, but similar. Sometimes meanings of roots and words are similar when in one root there’s a כ and in the other there’s a ק. One such…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שקיפות-1.m4a” /]שְׁקִיפוּת When I say transparency, I’m not talking about a plastic slide placed in a projector (Don’t know what I’m talking about? You were probably born after 1990). That is שקופית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שקיפות-2.m4a” /]. Rather, I’m referring to transparency in the abstract sense – that virtue of today’s most healthily growing companies and the noblest of nonprofits,…