[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סיבולת-לב-ריאה-1.m4a” /]סִבֹּלֶת לֵב-רֵאָה The Hebrew expression סיבולת לב-ריאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סיבולת-לב-ריאה-1.m4a” /] is a lot longer than cardio, but looks can be deceiving: cardio is a shortened version of cardio-vascular exercise. סיבולת לב-ריאה translates literally as heart-lung endurance, where סיבולת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סיבולת-לב-ריאה-2.m4a” /] means endurance, לב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סיבולת-לב-ריאה-3.m4a” /] means heart and ריאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סיבולת-לב-ריאה-4.m4a” /] means lung (lungs are ריאות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/סיבולת-לב-ריאה-5.m4a” /]). For example: [audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/החלל-החיצון-1.m4a” /]הֶחָלָל הַחִיצוֹן This one’s for all of you Star Wars fans. Last week, we saw the term for personal space – מרחב אישי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/החלל-החיצון-2.m4a” /]. The word מרחב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/החלל-החיצון-3.m4a” /] there refers to space in the sense of an expansive place, or a place where events take place. The word for space as in empty space or a cavity is…
חֻרְשָׁה Says Wikipedia, “A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others.” When I hear the word thicket I think Bambi. Anyway, a thicket or a grove in Hebrew is a חורשה (khoor-SHAH). And in Jerusalem’s חֻרְשַׁת הַיָּרֵח (khoor-SHAHT hah-yah-REH-ahkh) –…
צָב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-1.mp3″ /] Strictly speaking, צָב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-1.mp3″ /] refers to a tortoise – a land turtle – while צַב יָם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-2.mp3″ /] – literally, sea tortoise – is a turtle that swims. But Israelis tend to use צב for both. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צב-3.mp3″ /]כְּשֶׁהָיִתִי יֶלֶד, מְאֹד אָהַבְתִּי אֶת צָבֵי הַנִּינְגָ’ה. When I was…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]לְשַׁכְנֵעַ To succumb or to surrender, in Hebrew, is the נפעל verb להיכנע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]אנחנו לא ניכנע! We will not surrender! להיכנע appears in Biblical Hebrew, where it means to humble oneself, which is what one does when surrendering. The word’s root is כ.נ.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לשכנע-#.m4a” /]. But since the causative הפעיל usage…
Click the Hebrew word above to hear it pronounced. The Hebrew word for summer is קַיִץ (KAH-yeets), probably related to the Biblical Hebrew word for end – קֵץ (kehts), as summer can be seen as the end of the year (especially with Rosh Hashana coming up). Now, you may know that Aramaic is a…