having trouble seeing the print? בְּלִי, בִּלְעֲדֵי, לְלֹא extra large discount ENDS TODAY! Last chance – SIGN UP NOW! While the common Hebrew preposition for with is עִם (eem), the one for without is בְּלִי (beh-LEE). But just like עם doesn’t get declined with suffixes to mean with me, with us, etc, and we use אֶת (et) instead,…
If you’ll be in Jerusalem in August, don’t miss חוצות היוצר – the Artist’s Colony fair, where you’ll find artwork from around the world as well as concerts by some of Israel’s rock stars. חוצות isn’t exactly a colony – the word refers to the outdoors in a poetic sense (בחוץ is outdoors or outside in the everyday…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מועד-1.m4a” /]מוֹעֵד You may be familiar with the word מועד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מועד-1.m4a” /] from Biblical terms such as אהל מועד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מועד-2.m4a” /] – the tent of meeting. The word itself employs the root י.ע.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מועד-3.m4a” /] meaning goal or target, so that מועד means an appointed or specific time. A couple of Modern-Hebrew examples: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מועד-4.m4a” /]אפשר לדחות את מועד התשלום? Is…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-1.m4a” /]עַל שְׂפַת הַנָּהָר The Hebrew word for lip is שפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-2.m4a” /]. Believe it or not, this word is quite versatile: it also means language and bank (of a river, a sea, etc). In a connected “of” (construct) state, שפה becomes שפת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-3.m4a” /], so that a river bank is שפת נהר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-4.m4a” /] – literally, a bank…