how to say “to deliver the goods” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/מחצית-#.m4a” /]מַחֲצִית Halftime is a concept familiar to sports lovers around the world, whether it’s soccer or American football or basketball. The Hebrew word for halftime is מחצית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/מחצית-#.m4a” /], which also means a half and a semester. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/מחצית-#.m4a” /]הם ניצחו במחצית השנייה. They won in the second half. מחצית comes from the…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מענה-1.m4a” /]תְּשׁוּבָה, מַעֲנֶה If you know the Hebrew word for question – שאלה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מענה-2.m4a” /], you probably also know the word for answer – תשובה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מענה-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מענה-4.m4a” /]לא לכל שאלה יש תשובה. Not every question has an answer. The root of תשובה is ש.ו.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מענה-5.m4a” /] meaning return: an answer to a question is a response…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שעון-קיץ-1.m4a” /]שְׁעוֹן קַיִץ While in English we refer to certain times, such as Israel time (currently GMT+2) and daylight savings time, in Hebrew we refer to these using the word שעון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שעון-קיץ-2.m4a” /] – clock, so that we have: שעון ישראל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שעון-קיץ-3.m4a” /] Israel time and שעון קיץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שעון-קיץ-4.m4a” /] summer time (daylight-savings time) For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שעון-קיץ-5.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגמור-1.m4a” /]לִגְמוֹר, לְסַיֵּם Modern Hebrew has two common words for to finish. לגמור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגמור-2.m4a” /], the word used in the Bible, is probably the better-known one to people who are familiar with Hebrew but who are not native speakers. לגמור is used in Modern Hebrew primarily to mean to finish something – it is a transitive verb, one…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-1.m4a” /]לִפּוֹל The root of the word ליפול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-1.m4a” /] is נ.פ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-2.m4a” /] – since early Hebrew speakers found it troublesome to say לנפול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-7.m4a” /], the nasal n sound disappeared, leaving only a trace in the hardening of the פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-3.m4a” /] – from a f sound to p. In variations of ליפול, though, the n sound…