having trouble seeing the print? לְנַגֵּב This Spring Get Talking in Hebrew Yesterday, we saw that the Hebrew word for dessert – קִנּוּחַ– comes from the active-intensive פִּעֵל verb, לְקַנֵּחַ– one of the words for to wipe. A more common word for to wipe is לְנַגֵּב, also a פִּעֵל verb. Unlike לקנח, however, לנגב implies wiping to…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/קצר-בתקשורת-#.m4a” /]קֶצֶר בַּתִּקְשֹׁוֹרֶת The Hebrew word for communication is תקשורת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/קצר-בתקשורת-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/קצר-בתקשורת-#.m4a” /]יש לנו תקשורת ממש טובה. We have really good communication. A lapse in communication – or a communication breakdown – is קצר בתקשורת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/קצר-בתקשורת-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/קצר-בתקשורת-#.m4a” /]אמרתי משהו בתמימות אבל היא נעלבה – כנראה קצר בתקשורת. I said…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /]מילה שימושית בעברית מודרנית Useful Word in Modern Hebrew [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /]סימני הסדר The Seder Contents להקדיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /] – to dedicate The root ק.ד.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /] means holy, and something holy is unique, set aside. To dedicate is להקדיש, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/פסח-2020-#.m4a” /]אני מקדיש לכם את השיר הזה. I dedicate to…
having trouble seeing the print? מוּמְיָה, חָנוּט, אִמָּא’לֶה listen and repeat The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world features that staple of ancient-Egyptian culture and a main character in horror films, the mummy. In the Torah’s case, the mummies happen to be יַעֲקֹב listen and repeat – Jacob, the forefather – and יוֹסֵף listen and repeat – his son Joseph. The most…
גֵּרוּשִׁין listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to expel or to banish is the (not surprisingly) active-intensive verb לְגָרֵשׁ listen and repeat. It’s the same word used already in Biblical Hebrew for the unfortunate circumstance where a man asks his wife to leave – when he divorces her. Since today…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/שף-#.m4a” /]שֵׁף, טַבָּח מוּמְחֶה, אַשַּׁף מִטְבָּח The most common Hebrew word for chef is שף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/שף-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/שף-#.m4a” /]לכבוד יום ההולדת שלה לקחתי אותה למסעדת שף. For her birthday I took her to a chef’s restaurant. A female chef is שפית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/שף-#.m4a” /]. But what is a chef anyway? This French word is…