– of the root ע.צ.מ (a.ts.m) meaning might or fortitude. . [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגיע-לי-1.m4a” /]מַגִּיעַ לִי To deserve something implies entitlement. It implies that something is coming to the recipient. Hebrew translates I deserve as מגיע לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגיע-לי-1.m4a” /] – literally, coming to me. Change לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגיע-לי-2.m4a” /] to לו[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגיע-לי-3.m4a” /] – to him, לה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגיע-לי-4.m4a” /] – to her, etc. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מגיע-לי-5.m4a” /]מה נראה לך, שמגיע לך פרס? What do you (a…
אַשְׁמָה, לְהַאֲשִׁים Note the similarity between the English word shame and the Hebrew word אָשֵׁם (ah-SHEM). The Hebrew word describes a male as guilty. A guilty female would be אֲשֵׁמָה (ah-sheh-MAH). Guilt, that nasty feeling that might nevertheless provoke us to do good, is אַשְׁמָה. One might say, יֵשׁ לִי רִגְשֵׁי אַשְׁמָה (yesh lee…
This is one of those words people typically learn in their first course in Hebrew, but it’s got meanings beyond the simple one. לַעֲבוֹר (lah-ah-VOHR) means literally to pass, as in אֲתָּה תַּעֲבוֹר אֶת הַצּוֹמֶת (ah-TAH tah-ah-VOHR et hah-TSOH-met) – You (a male) will pass the intersection. This is a future-tense usage of לעבור….