how to say “film director” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-1.m4a” /]בַּמַּאי קוֹלְנוֹעַ
The word for a director who orchestrates the production of a play or a movie is במאי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-2.m4a” /] for a male and במאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-3.m4a” /] for a female. They derive from the word במה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-4.m4a” /], which once referred to the platform on which people would perform religious rituals including sacrifice (containing a מזבח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-5.m4a” /] – an altar), but today it refers to a stage.
קולנוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-6.m4a” /], a 20th-century Hebrew word referring to film or movie, combines two ancient Hebrew words: קול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-7.m4a” /] meaning sound or voice, and נוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-8.m4a” /] meaning movement – a movie is a moving picture, also a moving sound.
So a film director is במאי קולנוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-1.m4a” /] or במאית קולנוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-9.m4a” /].
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-10.m4a” /]כשהייתי ילד, רציתי להיות במאי קולנוע.
When I was a boy, I wanted to be a movie director.
בימאי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-11.m4a” /] and בימאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/במאי-קולנוע-12.m4a” /] are broader terms referring to a director of any production, including television.
