how to say “withdrawal” in Hebrew
יֵינָן listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Wine is so basic to human culture that the word for it spans a wide variety of languages. In Italian and Spanish it’s vino, in Russian it’s вино (also vino), in Japanese it’s ワイン (sounds like vine), in Zulu it’s iwayini, and in Hebrew it’s יַיִן listen and repeat….
מָתוּן listen to this word pronounced Today’s dose of Hebrew is sponsored by… The edge of something is the קָצֶה (kah-TSEH); someone “on the edge” or extreme is קִיצוֹנִי (kee-tsoh-NEE). But someone moderate or level-headed – in ideology or in relationships – is מָתוּן. My 2am not-delving-into-it theory is that the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחבל-מתאבד-1.m4a” /]מְחַבֵּל מִתְאַבֵּד The expression suicide bomber aptly described the terrorists of the second Intifada in Israel of the early 2000s. Today’s attackers are just as willing to die in order to murder Jews, but they tend to use knives and cars instead of bombs. The Hebrew equivalent of suicide bomber applies to both brands of terrorist: מחבל מתאבד[audioclip…
אֱמוּנִים, נֶאֱמָנוּת In elementary school at Emek Hebrew Academy, we used to say, “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America…” Since today is the independence day of the United States, I think it appropriate to highlight one of the words in that expression. Allegiance to a cause,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מנוף-1.m4a” /]מָנוֹף, עֲגוּרָן The Hebrew word מנוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מנוף-2.m4a” /] refers to a lever or a small-scale crane. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מנוף-3.m4a” /]הכבאי עלה במנוף כדי לחלץ את החתול שהיה התקוע בעץ. The firefighter went up in a crane in order to rescue the cat that was stuck in the tree. Leveraging this noun, Hebrew created a word…
having trouble seeing the print? עָצוּב, עֲצוּבָה listen and repeat The Hebrew word for sad is עצוב listen and repeat in the masculine and עצובה listen and repeat in the feminine. For example: כְּשֶׁאֲנִי קוֹרֵא עַל טַיְפוּן הַייאֶן, אֲנִי מַרְגִּישׁ עָצוּב. As I read about Typhoon Haiyan, I feel sad. listen עצוב comes from…