how to say “to inhale” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לשאוף-1.m4a” /]לִשְׁאוֹף
To breathe is לנשום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לשאוף-2.m4a” /]. And the specific actions of to inhale and to exhale are לשאוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לשאוף-1.m4a” /] and לנשוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לשאוף-3.m4a” /], respectively.
As former US President Bill Clinton once said:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לשאוף-4.m4a” /]התנסיתי פעם או פעמיים עם מריחוואנה… אבל… לא שאפתי.
I experimented with marijuana a time or two… but… I didn’t inhale.
לשאוף also means to aspire, as in:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לשאוף-5.m4a” /]היא שואפת לדברים גדולים.
She aspires to great things.
