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Hebrew for income (tax)
מס הכנסה The great American institution, the IRS, has an Israeli equivalent. It’s called מַס הַכְנָסָה (mahs hakh-nah-SAH) – literally, income tax. לְהַכְנִיס (le-hakh-NEES) is to insert or to cause to come in – so its noun form is הכנסה – income. מַס is a Biblical Hebrew word that means something to…
how to say “to spread your wings” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/לפרוש-כנפיים-#.m4a” /]לִפְרוֹשׂ כְּנָפַיִים The Hebrew word for wing is כנף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/לפרוש-כנפיים-#.m4a” /], while a pair of wings is כנפיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/לפרוש-כנפיים-#.m4a” /]. To spread something out is לפרוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/לפרוש-כנפיים-#.m4a” /], so that to spread wings is לפרוש כנפיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/לפרוש-כנפיים-#.m4a” /]. This expression can be used literally or figuratively. For example, a mentor might say to their apprentice: [audioclip…
how to say “tattoo” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /]כְּתוֹבֶת קַעֲקַע, קַעֲקוּעַ The Biblical-Hebrew term for tattoo is כתובת קעקע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /] – kaka writing. People still use כתובת קעקע today, but the far more commonly-used term is קעקוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /]יש לו מלא קעקועים! He has tons of tattoos! The word קעקע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /] (kaka) probably comes from…
two words for “gift” in Hebrew
מַתָּנָה, שַׁי Can’t read Hebrew yet? Just like the English word gift comes from the verb give, colloquial Hebrew’s word for it is מַתָּנָה , coming from the verb לָתֵת – to give. For example: לֹא רַק יְלָדִים אוֹהֲבִים לְקַבֵּל מַתָּנוֹת. Not only children like receiving gifts. Another…
how to say “to read out loud” in (Modern) Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להקריא-1.m4a” /]לְהַקְרִיא As mentioned earlier this week, the Hebrew word לקרוא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להקריא-2.m4a” /] first meant to call out, but took on the additional meaning of to read when the literate few would read texts out loud to the illiterate masses. Thus in Biblical Hebrew, there is no distinction between reading and reading out loud. In the Modern era, when literacy is at an…
how to say “sky blue” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /]תְּכֵלֶת כחול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /] is the common word for blue, but Israelis often use תכלת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /] to refer to particularly graceful things like the sea and the sky. תכלת is azure – basically sky blue. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/תכלת-#.m4a” /]יש לה עיניים יפות, בצבע תכלת. She has beautiful eyes, of the color sky blue….