[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימוש-עצמי-1.m4a” /]מִמּוּשׁ עַצְמִי If you’ve spent some time around Israelis, you’ve almost certainly heard the word ממש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימוש-עצמי-2.m4a” /]. It literally means substance, but it’s far more commonly used to mean really, truly, very, exactly, etc. It’s a super-useful word. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימוש-עצמי-3.m4a” /]זה ממש יקר! That’s really expensive! Using the three letters of…
קָהָל listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for audience is quite an ancient one, as Moses would address the audience – הַקָּהָל listen and repeat – of the wandering People of Israel for forty years in the desert. A modern example: הַקָּהָל מַקְשִׁיב. The audience is listening. listen The…
נמל תעופה There are two ways to say airport in Hebrew. One is the literal translation – נְמַל תְּעוּפָה (ne-MAHL te-oo-FAH), where נמל means port of (pronounced נָמֵל – nah-MEHL – when it’s just port without of), and תעופה means flight or aviation. The other way to say it translates from the lesser-used English word, airfield –…
having trouble seeing the print? בְּיָד רְחָבָה Watch a demo video of one of our Hebrew courses. Class starts October 30 around the country. Register by October 11 to save NIS 200. Languages in general often make use of concrete images to express abstract ideas – we call this figurative language. Here’s a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /]מְלוּנָה You may know the Hebrew word for hotel – מלון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /]ישנו במלון חמישה כוכבים בים המלח. We stayed (slept) in a five-star hotel at the Dead Sea. מלון comes from the root ל.ו.נ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /] meaning staying overnight. A related word is מלונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /], which in biblical…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פליטת-פה-1.m4a” /] פְּלִיטַת פֶּה The simple verb לפלוט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פליטת-פה-2.m4a” /] means to emit or to divulge. Its noun version is פליטה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פליטת-פה-3.m4a” /] – an emission. So an emission of the mouth – an involuntary one, to be sure – is a פליטת פה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פליטת-פה-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פליטת-פה-4.m4a” /]אחרי פליטת הפה של סבא, כולנו התחבאנו מתחת לשולחן….