[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/להניף-דגל-#.m4a” /]לְהָנִיף דֶּגֶל The Hebrew word for flag is דגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/להניף-דגל-#.m4a” /], as in the biblical: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/להניף-דגל-#.m4a” /]דֶּגֶל מַחֲנֵה רְאוּבֵן תֵּימָנָה (במדבר ב’, י’) The flag of the camp of Reuben towards the south (Numbers 2:10) To raise a flag or to fly a flag is להניף דגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/להניף-דגל-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/להניף-דגל-#.m4a” /]בשנת 1967…
הֶחְזֵר כַּסְפִּי Can’t read Hebrew yet? A refund in Hebrew is הֶחְזֵר כַּסְפִּי – literally, a returning of funds. But more often than not, you’ll hear people abbreviating the expression to simply החזר . For example: תִּרְאִי אִם תּוּכְלִי לְקַבֵּל הֶחְזֵר מֵהַחֲנוּת. See if you can get a refund from…
לְכָל דָּבָר וְעִנְיָין Growing up I would hear teachers in school use the expression “for all intensive purposes.” I knew what it meant but didn’t think about the words themselves. Only when I saw the expression in a book did the penny drop – it’s “for all intents and purposes.” Now it started making more…
This one’s also a request. A few days ago I wrote about the word for swimming – שְׂחִיָּה (se-khee-YAH). You may know the word for glasses – מִשְׁקָפַיִם (meesh-kah-FAH-yeem). The root of the word is ש.ק.פ (sh.k.f), whose core meaning is clarity and transparency. A verb of that root is לְהַשְׁקִיף (le-hahsh-KEEF) – to…
בִּלְתִּי צָפוּי Suppose you’re sitting on the sofa one stormy evening covered in a warm blanket, reading a book, when suddenly there’s an unexpected knock on the door. Expected or foreseen in Hebrew is צָפוּי (tsah-FOO-ee), from the root צ.פ.ה (ts.p.h), meaning watching. It’s the same root as in הָר הַצּוֹפִים (hahr hah-tsoh-FEEM) – Mount Scopus – the site…
having trouble seeing the print? הֲשָׂמָה DEADLINE TOMORROW! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! photo by Unhindered by Talent To put or to place something down, in Hebrew, is the simple פעל verb, לָשִׂים (lah-SEEM). Its root is שׂ.י.מ (s.y.m) Applying that ancient Hebrew word to the commercial world of today, we get לְהָשׂים (leh-hah-SEEM) – to place a…