[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/שווה-1.m4a” /]שָׁוֶה, בְּשֹׁוִי The Hebrew word for worth or valued at is שווה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/שווה-2.m4a” /], the same word as equal. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/שווה-3.m4a” /]הבית הזה שווה מיליון דולר. This house is worth a million dollars. In Hebrew slang, שווה means great or worthwhile. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/שווה-4.m4a” /]זה סרט ממש שווה. It’s a really great (worth your time) movie….
having trouble seeing the print? לֶאֱסוֹר Our popular Hebrew classes start next week around the country! Spots are still available. לֶאֱסוֹר, an active-simple פָּעַל verb, means to forbid. Its origin goes back to Biblical Hebrew, where it means to bind someone or something or to tie up. Here’s a Modern-Hebrew example: אָסַרְתִּי עָלָיו לַחְצוֹת אֶת הַכְּבִישׁ…
מָאתַיִם, אַלְפַּיִם Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday we saw the Hebrew terms for three hundred and three thousand – שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת and שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים , respectively. Higher multiples of those numbers follow a pattern: אַרְבַּע מְאוֹת, אַרְבַּעַת אֲלָפִים – 400, 4000 חֲמֵשׁ מְאוֹת, חֲמֵשֶׁת אֲלָפִים – 500, 5000 …
רִגּוּל Ilan Grapel, a dual US-Israeli citizen interning in Cairo, is being accused of spying for Israel. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4081731,00.html It’s an international scandal – שַׁעֲרוּרִיָּה בֵּינְלְאֻמִּית (shah-ah-roo-ree-YAH BEH-een-leh-oo-MEET). Strangely, à propos this week’s Torah portion, the word for espionage in Hebrew is רִגּוּל (ree-GOOL). A spy is a מְרַגֵּל (meh-rah-GHEL) or, if she’s a female, a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתרחש-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְרַחֵשׁ There’s the simple verb in English to happen, whose Hebrew equivalent is לקרות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתרחש-2.m4a” /], a simple verb. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתרחש-3.m4a” /]מה קרה? What happened? Then there are higher words, such as to transpire and to take place. These in Hebrew are the reflexive-intensive להתרחש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתרחש-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתרחש-4.m4a” /]דבר מהפכני מתרחש במזרח התיכון. Something…