ט The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is טֵת (tet). If you’re unfamiliar with the Hebrew alphabet, you can remember the sound this letter makes by its similarity to the way a teapot looks: Well, they sort of look alike. Anyhow, ט is one of three Hebrew letters that…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/משורר-#.m4a” /]מְשׁוֹרֵר We’ve seen that שיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/משורר-#.m4a” /] means song, and שירה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/משורר-#.m4a” /] means poetry. A poet is a משורר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/משורר-#.m4a” /] if he’s male and משוררת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/משורר-#.m4a” /] if she’s female. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/משורר-#.m4a” /]למה התכוון המשורר עם השיר הזה? What did the poet intend with this poem? In the word משורר you…
I as an American grew up saying fifteen minutes. Only as I crossed the Atlantic and moved to Israel did I encounter English speakers saying a quarter hour. Hebrew favors the latter construction, so that fifteen minutes is רבע שעה, where רבע means a quarter and שעה means hour. For example: אני אגיע תוך רבע…
הַשְׁכָּמָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? To wake up early is לְהַשְׁכִּים , an active-causative verb of the root שׁ.כ.מ (sh.k.m). Here’s a Biblical example: וַיַּּשְׁכֵּם אַבְרָהָם בַּבֹּקֶר וַיַּחֲבֹשׁ אֶת חֲמֹרוֹ… And Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey… (Genesis 22:3) Likewise, the act of getting…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נשק-1-1.m4a” /]נֶשֶׁק If you’re a male entering an Israeli mall, you’re likely to encounter a security guard who will ask you: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נשק-2.m4a” /]יש לך נשק? Do you have a weapon? Alternatively, he or she might say, ?אתה חמוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נשק-3.m4a” /] – are you armed? נשק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נשק-1-1.m4a” /] means weapon and is sometimes used to refer to weapons…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְעַטֵּשׁ Your third-grader Israeli might argue with me and say, “to sneeze is לעשות אפצ’י![audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-2.m4a” /]”, but the grown-up way of saying to sneeze remains להתעטש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-3.m4a” /]אני לא מצליח לעבוד כי היא מתעטשת כל כמה שניות. I’m not getting any work done because she sneezes every few seconds. להתעטש appears…