how to say “port” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/בזמן-האחרון-#.m4a” /]בַּזְּמַן הָאַחֲרוֹן You may know the word לאחרונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/בזמן-האחרון-#.m4a” /] Another related expression you’re very likely to hear in Israel is the equivalent of lately – בזמן האחרון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/בזמן-האחרון-#.m4a” /] – literally, in the last time. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/בזמן-האחרון-#.m4a” /]קובי, איפה אתה מתחבא בזמן האחרון? Kobi, where have you been hiding lately?

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אתה-צוחק-עלי-1.m4a” /]אַתָּה צוֹחֵק עָלַי? In Hebrew, when we talk about making fun of someone, we talk literally about laughing on them. So to make fun of is לצחוק על[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אתה-צוחק-עלי-2.m4a” /]. For example, if a man were stopped by a police officer for running a stop sign but proceeded to argue with the cop’s grammar, the cop…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-1.m4a” /]פֹּה, כָּאן, הִנֵּה A subscriber asked me recently about the different words for here in Hebrew. While פה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-2.m4a” /] goes back to Biblical Hebrew, the use of כאן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-3.m4a” /] only began in Mishnaic times, and probably arrived from a foreign language such as Aramaic.  But they are used interchangeably to mean here, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-4.m4a” /]יש…