how to say “two days from now” in Hebrew
תִּשָּׁעֵן עָלַי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to lean is a verb that falls into the נִפְעָל form: לְהִשָּׁעֵן listen and repeat, of the root שׁ.ע.נ (sh.a.n). For example: הוּא נִשְׁעָן עַל הַקִּיר. He is leaning against (on) the wall. listen You may recognize the…
נְתוּנִים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נתונים-1.mp3″ /] I remember from high-school geometry that we had to rely on the givens to solve or a problem or to prove something. With my family’s moving to Israel and then back to the States, I benefited from taking geometry twice, thus learning the terms in both languages. Givens in Hebrew is a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/פעם-היה-1.m4a” /]פַּעַם הָיָה Sometimes there’s a gap between what we say and what we mean, and I’m not talking about lying. Take for example the expression used to be in English – what does once upon a time have to do with using? Hebrew’s term for this is more straightforward: פעם [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/פעם-היה-2.m4a” /], literally,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/הרגשה-#.m4a” /]הַרְגָּשָׁה You may know the expression I don’t feel well: אני לא מרגיש טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/הרגשה-#.m4a” /] (spoken by a male) אני לא מרגישה טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/הרגשה-#.m4a” /] (spoken by a female) להרגיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/הרגשה-#.m4a” /], a הפעיל verb, is to feel. And the noun version of להרגיש is הרגשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/הרגשה-#.m4a” /] -a feeling. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/הרגשה-#.m4a” /]יש…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להוריד-1.m4a” /]לְהוֹרִיד The Hebrew root י.ר.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להוריד-2.m4a” /] means going down. Plugged into the active-causative form, the root yields the word להוריד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להוריד-1.m4a” /] – to take down or to lower. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להוריד-3.m4a” /]תוריד את הווליום! Lower the volume! (to a male) Another way of saying the same thing is תנמיך את הווליום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להוריד-4.m4a” /]. With the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נא-להקיש-1.m4a” /]נָא לְהַקִּישׁ אַחַת To press as in to put pressure in Hebrew is the simple verb ללחוץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נא-להקיש-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נא-להקיש-3.m4a” /]לחצתי על הכפתור. I pressed (on) the button. But when pressing buttons on a keypad, Hebrew uses another verb, the active-causative להקיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נא-להקיש-4.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נא-להקיש-5.m4a” /]לעברית, נא להקיש אחת….