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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דבורה-1.m4a” /]דְּבוֹרָה While Hebrew nouns are largely categorized as masculine or feminine, some words are the same for both genders. One example I’ve used several times on this blog is אדם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דבורה-2.m4a” /] – person. This word is masculine, but applies equally to males and females: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דבורה-3.m4a” /]היא אדם נחמד. She is a nice person. Occasionally, you’ll…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גיל-הפרישה-1.m4a” /]גִּיל הַפְּרִישָׁה Hebrew has several terms for retirement – גמלאות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גיל-הפרישה-2.m4a” /] of the root ג.מ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גיל-הפרישה-3.m4a” /] meaning benefit, פנסיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גיל-הפרישה-4.m4a” /] – pension, and פרישה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גיל-הפרישה-5.m4a” /] – withdrawing. The more common way of referring to the age of retirement, when people stop working (or stop working because they have to) and hopefully cash in…
מסור For the first day of חֲנֻכָּה (khah-noo-KAH) – Hanukkah, I thought I’d inaugurate one of the themes of the holiday: devotion to a cause. The Maccabees were devoted – מְסוּרִים (me-soo-REEM) – to the cause of defending the right of Jews to practice their religion. Thanks to their מְסִירוּת (me-see-ROOT) – devotion– the Jewish…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַקִּיף listen and repeat Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us I’m shying away from doing work during this סֻכּוֹת listen and repeat (Sukkot) festival, so you’ve been seeing fewer doses of Hebrew. But here’s a word that’s so timely I want to teach it to you now. To orbit or…
having trouble seeing the print? צְפִירָה Our Hebrew class starts Sunday! 10 spots available per course. Sign up now! A couple of hours ago, residents of Jerusalem may have been taken by surprise by the sound of a city-wide siren. This was a test. In any case, the Hebrew word for the sound of a siren is…