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how to say “the big screen” in Hebrew

how to say “the big screen” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/המסך-הגדול-#.m4a” /]הַמָּסָךְ הַגָּדוֹל The Hebrew word for screen is also as old as the Bible. While back then it didn’t refer to the flat object you’re looking at right now, today מסך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/המסך-הגדול-#.m4a” /] appears on smart phones, tablets, TV’s… and the big screen at the movie theater – המסך הגדול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/המסך-הגדול-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip…

daily video – how to say “embarrassing slip-up” in Hebrew slang

ByAmi Steinberger
To slow down the audio, start playing the video and then click the settings icon at the bottom-right of the video and change the playback speed. תמליל של הכתוביות בעברית אהלן חברים יקרים יש כל מיני פדיחות, יש פדיחות פיזיות ויש גם פדיחות מילוליות למי שחובב מילים כמוני, אני דווקא אוהב את הפדיחות המילוליות ויש...

how to say “chain” or “necklace” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

  שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת   Can’t read Hebrew yet?     The Hebrew word for chain (Biblical as well as Modern) is שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת  . Say it out loud a few times.   As a chain is a string of connected loops (לוּלָאוֹת  ), the word שרשרת itself conveys a sense of pieces being connected to one another – with two instances of שׁר…

how to say “childish” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

  having trouble seeing the print? יַלְדּוּתִי     The Hebrew word for child – probably related to the English word – is יֶלֶד (YEH-led) for a male and יַלְדָּה (yahl-DAH). Words that in English have -hood, -ism, etc, at the end of the word, in Hebrew typically have an וּת– (oot) ending. So childhood is יַלְדּוּת (yahl-DOOT). Childish,…

לפסוע – part one of the Passover theme of mobilization

ByAmi Steinberger

לפסוע   The Hebrew word for the Passover holiday is פֶּסַח (PEH-sakh); the word itself means passing over or skipping over, so that G-d skips over the homes of the Israelites on His way to smite the Egyptian firstborn. The Pascal sacrifice is named after this event, this movement by G-d.   Hebrew verbs most typically have a…

how to say “messiah” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/משיח-#.m4a” /]מָשִׁיחַ The English word messiah is simply an anglicized version of the original Hebrew word: משיח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/משיח-#.m4a” /]. And the Hebrew word refers to a person anointed with ceremonial oil – a priest, a monarch, and most notably, the Jewish king descended from King David destined to redeem his people: מלך המשיח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/משיח-#.m4a” /]….