[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/פעם-היה-1.m4a” /]פַּעַם הָיָה Sometimes there’s a gap between what we say and what we mean, and I’m not talking about lying. Take for example the expression used to be in English – what does once upon a time have to do with using? Hebrew’s term for this is more straightforward: פעם [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/פעם-היה-2.m4a” /], literally,…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע נעים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]לֹא הָיָה וְלֹא נִבְרָא To express that something never took place, you could say זה אף פעם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] or זה מעולם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]. But Hebrew has a more special expression for this: לא היה ולא נברא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] – literally, it was not and was never created. For…
תסריט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תסריט-1.mp3″ /] The Hebrew word for (movie) script is תסריט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תסריט-1.mp3″ /], of the root ס.ר.ט (s.r.t) meaning ribbon or film. I put the word movie in parentheses because the תסריט contains the word for movie in itself. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תסריט-2.mp3″ /]הוא הגיש מאה תסריטים לפני שאחד התקבל. He submitted a hundred scripts before one was accepted….
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/קור-רוח-1.m4a” /]קוֹר רוּחַ When I was in junior high school, it was important to earn good grades and to get along with my parents, but far more than anything else, it was important to be cool. I’m not talking about cool weather or cool water. In Hebrew, the word for those is קריר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/קור-רוח-2.m4a” /], a diminutive of קר[audioclip…
תְּרֵיסַר English uses all sorts of measurements that baffle those used to the metric system – pounds (as opposed to the 1000-gram kilogram), inches (as opposed to one hundredth of a meter, the centimeter), and a dozen – twelve of something instead of ten. Now, while Hebrew does tend to count dozens of things as עשרות…