how do you say “my stomach hurts” in Hebrew?

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חי-נא-1.m4a” /]חַי, נָא A raw vegetable is חי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חי-נא-2.m4a” /] – literally, alive. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חי-נא-3.m4a” /]היא לא אוהבת לאכול בצל חי. She doesn’t like eating raw onion. For meat, however, use the word נא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חי-נא-4.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חי-נא-5.m4a” /]לא הרבה אנשים אוכלים בשר נא. Not many people eat raw meat. נא referring to…

Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew

לַחְגּוֹר חֲגוֹרָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לחגור-חגורה-1.mp3″ /] English has a couple of generic words for donning any article of clothing – to put on, to dress oneself in, to wear. Hebrew has a special verb for many different articles, sometimes deriving from the name of the article itself. For example, to put on a belt is לַחְגּוֹר חֲגוֹרָה[audioclip…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/סכר-#.m4a” /]סֶכֶר No, not damn. Dam – that thing that stops water from flowing. In Hebrew it’s a סכר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/סכר-#.m4a” /], whose three letter root ס.כ.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/סכר-#.m4a” /] is almost identical to that of lockdown (the idea of stopping activity) – סגר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/סכר-#.m4a” /], whose root is ס.ג.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/סכר-#.m4a” /]. The roots are so close that…