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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/המספר-שחויג-1.m4a” /]הַמִּסְפָּר שֶׁחֻיָּג To dial, in Hebrew, is לחייג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/המספר-שחויג-2.m4a” /]. And just as the physical action of dialing is now only a figure of speech we use to mean tapping numbers rather than actually turning the dial on a rotary phone (visual aids for those of you who don’t know what a rotary phone is),…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביצת-עין-1.m4a” /]בֵּיצַת עַיִן Some Israelis call it ביצה עם עין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביצת-עין-2.m4a” /] – an egg with an eye. But the more common expression is ביצת עין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביצת-עין-1.m4a” /] – literally, an eye egg or an egg of eye. You can imagine this sunny-side up egg and see why. Here’s the expression in action: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביצת-עין-3.m4a” /]ביצת עין יותר…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ממוקם-#.m4a” /]מְמֻקָּם Yesterday we saw that מיקום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ממוקם-#.m4a” /] means location, and it derives from the פיעל verb למקם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ממוקם-#.m4a” /], which means to place. Something placed or located is ממוקם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ממוקם-#.m4a” /], a פועל form of the same root. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ממוקם-#.m4a” /]איפה המשרד שלכם ממוקם? Where is your office located? and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ממוקם-#.m4a” /]הקייטנה ממוקמת…