THIS WEEK’S VIDEO DOSE OF HEBREW – how to say “number” and what that has to do with stories and hair

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /]בָּרַח לִי מֵהָרֹאשׁ The simple way of saying I forgot in Hebrew is שכחתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /], from the verb לשכוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /]. But if you want to get a little more colorful and say it slipped my mind, use ברח לי מהראש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /] – literally, escaped for me from the head. For example:…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-1.m4a” /]בֵּיצָה מְקֻשְׁקֶשֶת     We’ve seen that the active-intensive פיעל verb לקשקש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-2.m4a” /] means to scribble or to talk about nothing in particular. When cooking, this word can also refer to scrambling something such as an egg. Thus a scrambled egg is ביצה מקושקשת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-1.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/מקושקשת-3.m4a” /]תכין לי בבקשה ביצה מקושקשת. Make…