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how to say “to fall off your chair” in Hebrew

how to say “to fall off your chair” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ליפול-מהכיסא-#.m4a” /]לִיפּוֹל מֵהַכִּיסֵּא Hebrew’s phrase for this expression of shock is the same as the English – ליפול מהכיסא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ליפול-מהכיסא-#.m4a” /] – literally, to fall off the chair (as usual, Hebrew uses -ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ליפול-מהכיסא-#.m4a” /] – the instead of a possessive pronoun such as your). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ליפול-מהכיסא-#.m4a” /]כשהיא תשמע את הסיפור הזה היא תיפול…

What to say back (in Hebrew) to “I was just thinking of you…”

ByAmi Steinberger

  חַיִים אֲרוּכִּים listen to this phrase pronounced       This one’s for my friend Zevik in Encino, California. I would give him a call and he’d say, יֵש לְךָ חַיִים אֲרוּכִּים – you (will) have a long life. This is the charm Israelis wish one another if they thus telepathically find one another…

how to say “we’ll be in touch!” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/נהיה-בקשר-1.m4a” /]נִהְיֶה בְּקֶשֶׁר Having been living in Israel for close to a decade now, I’m finding that my English has taken on some Hebraic forms. When I lived in the States, I might close a conversation with “we’ll be in touch,” but now I occasionally find myself saying “we’ll be in contact.” That’s because the Hebrew expression is…

how to say “palace” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ארמון-#.m4a” /]אַרְמוֹן The Hebrew word for palace is ארמון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ארמון-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ארמון-#.m4a” /]מה נראה לכם, שאני גר בארמון? שיש לי מטוס פרטי? What do you guys think, that I live in a palace? That I have a private jet? Though it appears in Biblical Hebrew, the word ארמון probably originates in…

how to say “to define” in Hebrew

how to say “to define” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להגדיר-#.m4a” /]לְהַגְדִּיר To define something is to show what it is and what it isn’t, where it begins and where it ends. For example, בית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להגדיר-#.m4a” /] – house is a place of living, but it is not a workplace.  The Hebrew word for to define is להגדיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להגדיר-#.m4a” /], a הפעיל verb calling upon…

how to say “design” in Hebrew

how to say “design” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/עיצוב-#.m4a” /]עִיצּוּב To design, in Hebrew, is the פיעל verb לעצב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/עיצוב-#.m4a” /]. Its noun form is עיצוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/עיצוב-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/עיצוב-#.m4a” /]היא למדה עיצוב פנים בבצלאל, בירושלים. She studied interior design at Bezalel, in Jerusalem. Even though the root of these words ,ע.צ.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/עיצוב-#.m4a” /], has the same letters as the…