how do you say “to dehydrate” in Hebrew?
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתייבש-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְיַבֵּשׁ
You may know the basic Hebrew word for dry – יבש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתייבש-2.m4a” /].
This word forms the root of related words such as the active-intensive לייבש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתייבש-3.m4a” /] – to dry something and the reflexive intensive להתייבש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתייבש-1.m4a” /] – to dry up… or to dehydrate.
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתייבש-4.m4a” /]מאוד קל להתייבש בארץ בקיץ.
It’s very easy to dehydrate in Israel in the summer.
Note that in יבש, the ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתייבש-5.m4a” /] has a soft v sound, but in לייבש and להתייבש, it has a hard b sound. That’s because לייבש and להתייבש are of the intensive verb forms, and that intensiveness is indicated by a hardening or doubling of the second root letter.
