how to say “to get filled up” in Hebrew
לְהִתְמַלֵּא
מָלֵא for something masculine and מְלֵאָה for something feminine mean full, as in filled to capacity.
for something masculine and מְלֵאָה for something feminine mean full, as in filled to capacity. For example:
הַמָּקוֹם מָלֵא בַּאֲנָשִׁים.
The place is full of people.
and
הַבֶּטֶן שֶׁלִּי מְלֵאָה.
My stomach is full.
For something to get filled up, Hebrew plugs the root מ.ל.א (m.l.a) into the reflexive verb form, yielding לְהִתְמַלֵּא .
.For example:
כָּל יוֹם קוֹנִים כַּרְטִיסִים, וְאוּלַם הַתֵּאַטְרוֹן מִתְמַלֵּא מַהֵר.
Every day (people) are buying tickets, and the theater’s hall is filling up fast.
