WEEKLY REVIEW – Make this Week’s Doses of Hebrew Your Own

  אָרֹךְ   Can’t read Hebrew yet?     The basic Hebrew word for long, when describing a masculine object, is אָרֹךְ   .   For example:   מִלְחָמָה וְשָׁלוֹם הוּא סֵפֶר אָרֹךְ מְאֹד. War and Peace is a very long book.     When describing something other than a single masculine object, the word changes…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מואר-1.m4a” /]מוּאָר Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story called “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” The story itself I don’t remember at all, but the title for some reason stayed with me. Something lighted or lit in Hebrew is מואר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מואר-1.m4a” /], a passive form of the active-causative verb להאיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מואר-2.m4a” /] – to light up or to shine. This word להאיר also forms the…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/קוץ-בתחת-#.m4a” /]קוֹץ בַּתַּחַת English has several ways of saying this, from the rated-G pain in the neck to the more obscene versions. While Israelis tend to use other words to describe people who get on their nerves, such as קרציה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/קוץ-בתחת-#.m4a” /] – a tick or a flea, there’s also the expression קוץ בתחת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/קוץ-בתחת-#.m4a” /] – a…

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep.      To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…