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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מד-חום-#.m4a” /]מַדחֹם Fever, in Hebrew, is חום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מד-חום-#.m4a” /], the same word as heat. To measure is למדוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מד-חום-#.m4a” /], of the root מ.ד.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מד-חום-#.m4a” /]. Thus, a device that measures fever – a thermometer – is a מדחום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מד-חום-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/מד-חום-#.m4a” /]יש לכם מדחום בבית? Do you guys have a thermometer at…
Today’s dose of Hebrew is sponsored by Yom Tov I’ve seen his amazing art at Hechal Shlomo and even acquired a piece myself. Check out Yom Tov’s virtual gallery, and visit his Kohelet exhibition in Jerusalem. It’s open throughout the summer. גָּמוּר, גְּמוּרָה אֲנִי גָּמוּר – I’m exhausted, or literally, I’m done (ah-NEE gah-MOOR). A…
having trouble seeing the print? הַסְלָמָה Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program this week’s video In light of this past week’s events in southern Israel and Gaza, coupled with the appearance of the mystical, prophetic Jacob’s ladder – סֻלַּם יַעֲקֹב – appearing in the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around…
מַטְעֵן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מטען-1.mp3″ /] To load, in Hebrew, is the simple verb לִטְעוֹן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מטען-2.mp3″ /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מטען-3.mp3″ /]הֵם טוֹעֲנִים אֶת הַמַּשָּׂאִית. They are loading the truck. To charge a battery, to cause it to be loaded, is the causative verb לְהַטְעִין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מטען-4.mp3″ /]. And a charger is a מַטְעֵן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מטען-1.mp3″ /], so that: [audioclip…
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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הפקדה-1.m4a” /]הַפְקָדָה The ancient Hebrew root פ.ק.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הפקדה-2.m4a” /] means visit, attend or appoint. It shows up in Modern Hebrew in words such as פקיד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הפקדה-3.m4a” /] – clerk or someone appointed for a job and תפקיד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הפקדה-4.m4a” /] – role or job. It also appears in the active-causative verb to deposit (to appoint someone or something such as a bank as a trustee of sorts)…