how to say “smoke” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/סניף-בנק-#.m4a” /]סְנִיף בַּנְק The Hebrew word for bank is בנק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/סניף-בנק-#.m4a” /] – simple enough. The word for branch (not of a tree – a location) is סניף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/סניף-בנק-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/סניף-בנק-#.m4a” /]כמה סניפים יש לכם בקו החוף? How many branches do you have on the coast line? or  [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/סניף-בנק-#.m4a” /]כמה סניפי בנק יש לכם?…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-1.m4a” /]מְתוֹפֵף Yesterday we saw the word for drums – תופים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-2.m4a” /]. A drummer is a מתופף when referring to a male, and מתופפת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-3.m4a” /] when it’s a female. These words also mean drumming, for example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מתופף-4.m4a” /]היא מתופפת בלהקה שלנו כבר עשר שנים. She has been drumming with our band for ten years already. מתופף…

בִּרְצִינוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-1.mp3″ /] The Hebrew word for serious is רציני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-2.mp3″ /] in the masculine. An example in the feminine plural: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-3.mp3″ /]הן בחורות ממש רציניות. They are really serious young women. In my search for the origin of the word, I came up only with the name of the Aramean king of biblical times,…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מובן-מאליו-1.m4a” /]מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו You may know the Hebrew word for of course or obviously – כמובן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מובן-מאליו-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מובן-מאליו-3.m4a” /]האם נגיע למסיבה? כמובן שכן! Will we come to the party? Of course we will (of course that yes)! כמובן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מובן-מאליו-4.m4a” /] means literally, as is the understood, where -כ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מובן-מאליו-5.m4a” /] means as is the and מובן[audioclip…