how to say “to snuggle” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זיהום-אוויר-1.m4a” /]זִהוּם אֲוִיר The Hebrew word for air – אוויר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זיהום-אוויר-2.m4a” /] – is borrowed from Ancient Greek. The word for pollution (as well as infection) is זיהום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זיהום-אוויר-3.m4a” /]. The word appears in Mishnaic Hebrew and comes from the active-intensive verb לזהם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זיהום-אוויר-4.m4a” /] – to pollute or to contaminate. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זיהום-אוויר-5.m4a” /]נמל חיפה זיהם את המים. The…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/הרגת-אותי-#.m4a” /]הָרַגְתָּ אוֹתִי! Suppose someone’s got you laughing for a few minutes straight. Then they crack another joke that pushes you over the edge, to the point where you’re laughing so hard you can barely breathe. You might say to them, you’re killing me! Hebrew renders this expression in the past tense: הרגתָ אותי[audioclip…
סָבְתָא שֶׁלִּי The Hebrew word סבתא means grandmother – or more accurately, grandma. The proper term, which you’ll only find in formal settings, is סבה. Likewise, grandfather or grandpa is סבא, while סב is the obscure, technically-correct term for grandfather. Here’s a colloquial example: סבתא שלי הייתה ניצולת שואה. My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor….
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /]הַשְּׁאָר, הַיֶּתֶר The root ש.א.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /] brings us the הפעיל verb to leave behind – להשאיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /], as well as השאר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /] – the rest. שאר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /] with the -ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /] prefix appears only in construct (סמיכות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /]) phrases such as שאר האנשים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/השאר-#.m4a” /] – the rest…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שדות-ופרדסים-1.m4a” /]שָׂדוֹת וּפַרְדְּסִים If you’re not familiar with Hebrew agricultural terms, perhaps you know the word for airport – or, more accurately, air field – שדה תעופה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שדות-ופרדסים-2.m4a” /]. The word שדה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שדות-ופרדסים-3.m4a” /] means field. Even though fields are שדות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שדות-ופרדסים-4.m4a” /], the word שדה is a masculine noun, so that we have: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שדות-ופרדסים-5.m4a” /]בארץ ישראל יש…