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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/לשבץ-#.m4a” /]לְשַׁבֵּץ Think about a checkerboard: it’s got black and white alternating little square boxes, all together creating a much larger checkered square: A spreadsheet also has little boxes that together make up a larger shape. Each of these little boxes – on a checkerboard and on a spreadsheet – is called a משבצת[audioclip…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להכפיל-1.m4a” /]לְהַכְפִּיל, לְהִתְרַבּוֹת To multiply has multiple (well, two) words in Hebrew, each for a related but separate concept. There’s to multiply numbers or things – that’s להכפיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להכפיל-2.m4a” /], from the root כ.פ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להכפיל-3.m4a” /] meaning double. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להכפיל-4.m4a” /]כשעברנו לבית החדש, הכפלנו את ההוצאות. When we moved to the new house, we doubled the expenses….