how to say “to bake” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-1.m4a” /]לֶאֱפוֹת
If you’ve around a Level 2 or Level 3 of Hebrew, you likely know the word for to cook – לבשל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-2.m4a” /]. But perhaps you didn’t know the word for to bake – לאפות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-1.m4a” /].
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-3.m4a” /]אמא אופה כל שבוע עוגיות לכבוד שבת.
Mom bakes cookies every week in honor of Shabbat.
Since the third root letter of א.פ.ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-4.m4a” /] is the weak-sounding ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-5.m4a” /], it tends to fall off in pronunciation – as you can see in לאפות where ה turns into an ות-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-6.m4a” /] ending, and in most of the forms of לאפות in the past tense where ה turns into another weaker-sounding letter, י[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-7.m4a” /].
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-8.m4a” /]אפיתי עוגה!
I baked a cake!
לקנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לאפות-9.m4a” /] – to buy – follows almost the same pattern of forms as לאפות. Here’s a table.
