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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-1.m4a” /]פֹּה, כָּאן, הִנֵּה A subscriber asked me recently about the different words for here in Hebrew. While פה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-2.m4a” /] goes back to Biblical Hebrew, the use of כאן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-3.m4a” /] only began in Mishnaic times, and probably arrived from a foreign language such as Aramaic. But they are used interchangeably to mean here, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-4.m4a” /]יש…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/לעשות-חיים-#.m4a” /]לַעֲשׂוֹת חַיִּים Israelis love life. That’s what put them at #12 this year in the World Happiness Report, and that’s the soul in the expression לעשות חיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/לעשות-חיים-#.m4a” /] – to have a good time, or literally, to make life. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/לעשות-חיים-#.m4a” /]תעשו חיים. ואל תשכחו להוציא איתכם את הזבל! Have a good…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקע-1.m4a” /]תֶּקַע We saw yesterday that a socket is a שקע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקע-2.m4a” /]. That which goes into a שקע, a plug, is a תקע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקע-1.m4a” /]. The word תקע forms the root ת.ק.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקע-3.m4a” /] meaning stuck: a תקע gets stuck into a שקע. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקע-4.m4a” /]יש תקע, אבל אין שקע. There’s a plug, but no…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְעַטֵּשׁ Your third-grader Israeli might argue with me and say, “to sneeze is לעשות אפצ’י![audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-2.m4a” /]”, but the grown-up way of saying to sneeze remains להתעטש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להתעטש-3.m4a” /]אני לא מצליח לעבוד כי היא מתעטשת כל כמה שניות. I’m not getting any work done because she sneezes every few seconds. להתעטש appears…