having trouble seeing the print? כַּנָּ”ל listen and repeat For those of you in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv… Our Level 2 and 4 courses are set to start soon! Jerusalem . Tel Aviv In most societies, people are assumed nice until proven otherwise. That’s why we say “nice to meet you” in English, נָעִים מְאֹד listen…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חליפה-1.m4a” /]חֲלִיפָה The Hebrew word for suit or suit jacket is חליפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חליפה-1.m4a” /]. The word in action: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חליפה-2.m4a” /]בפירנצה, אפשר לקנות חליפות איכותיות, ובזול. In Florence, you could buy quality suits, and for cheap. The root of חליפה is ח.ל.פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חליפה-3.m4a” /], the same as that of the causative verb להחליף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חליפה-4.m4a” /] – to switch or to change: think of…
having trouble seeing the print? נְקֻדַּת מוֹצָא Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program: LOCAL courses in Israel DISTANCE courses online The Hebrew root י.צ.א (y.ts.a), meaning exiting, gave rise to many words throughout Hebrew’s history. One of these words is that of origin as well as that which has exited/departed – מוֹצָא, which, in Modern Hebrew, has also…
מָאתַיִם, אַלְפַּיִם listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday we saw the Hebrew terms for three hundred and three thousand – שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת listen and repeat and שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים listen and repeat, respectively. Higher multiples of those numbers follow a pattern: אַרְבַּע מְאוֹת, אַרְבַּעַת אֲלָפִים – 400, 4000 listen and repeat חֲמֵשׁ מְאוֹת,…