how to say “stock” as in, “yes, we have it in stock”! in Hebrew

  מְלַאי listen to this word pronounced   Yesterday, I introduced the word חִסּוּל (khee-SOOL), in honor of the חיסול of Osama Bin Laden. Several readers wrote to me noting that לְחַסֵּל (leh-khah-SEL) means not only to finish something (or someone) off, but is also commonly used to mean liquidation, particularly in the phrase חיסול…

how to say “to take out a terrorist” in Hebrew

  לְחַסֵּל   Check out our summer Hebrew classes for adults and teens!     This week the arch terrorist Osama Bin Laden was… taken out. The (non-slang) way of saying that in Hebrew is הוּא חֻסַּל (hoo khoo-SAHL).  חוּסל (khoo-SAHL) is a “passive-intensive” פועל (poo-AHL) verb – he was taken out. To say, they took him out,…