Israel and Brazil

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הומה-אדם-1.m4a” /]הוֹמֶה אָדָם Yesterday we saw a Hebrew word for crowded or dense – צפוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הומה-אדם-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הומה-אדם-3.m4a” /]אנחנו לא אוהבים את המסעדה כי היא תמיד צפופה. We don’t like the restaurant because it’s always crowded. Now, Israelis use צפוף to mean crowded in a negative sense, or at best, in a neutral sense. But…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]מִתְלַמֵּד To learn or to study, in Hebrew, is the simple פעל verb ללמוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]. To teach is the intensive פיעל verb ללמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]. Then there’s להתלמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /], a reflexive התפעל verb. It means literally to teach oneself, though its more common forms are מתלמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /] – trainee (for a male)…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /]כְּלוּם, שׁוּם דָּבָר Modern Hebrew has two ways to say nothing in Hebrew: כלום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /] and שום דבר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /]. Biblical Hebrew has a third: מאומה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /]. Like אף אחד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /], the words כלום and שום דבר take לא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /] in a sentence: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/כלום-#.m4a” /]אף אחד לא יודע כלום…