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…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /]תַּנּוּר חִמּוּם Lots of apartments in Israel don’t have central heating. Instead, people warm up with a space heater – תנור חימום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /]. This expression means literally heating oven, where תנור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /] means oven and חימום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /] means heating. חימום is a noun form of the פיעל verb לחמם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a” /] – to heat. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/תנור-חימום-#.m4a”…
If you’re like me and sometimes act on impulse without thinking, raise your hand. Like many words that came into Hebrew in the modern era, the foreign אימפולסיבי is the word of choice for many Israelis. Still, another much more ancient word – פזיז – can be found in Hebrew conversation as well. For example:…
גַּלְגַּלֵּי עֵזֶר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גלגלי-עזר-1.mp3″ /] The name of the Biblical series of locations called גִלגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גלגלי-עזר-2.mp3″ /], comes from a doubling of the root ג.ל.ל (g.l.l), referring to something round. These were gathering places for the people, sort of like King Arthur’s round table but for the whole nation. ג.ל.ל is also the root of another round object, גַלגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גלגלי-עזר-3.mp3″ /]…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ירחון-#.m4a” /]חוֹדְשִׁי, יַרְחוֹן How do you say monthly in Hebrew? That depends on whether you’re using the word as an adjective or as a noun. As an adjective, it’s חודשי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ירחון-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ירחון-#.m4a” /]אוי, קיבלנו את החשבון החודשי! Oy, we got the monthly bill! חודשי comes from חודש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ירחון-#.m4a” /] meaning month, which…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /]אִישׁ/אֵשֶׁת מְכִירוֹת The Hebrew word for to sell is למכור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /], a פעל verb. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /]מכרתי את הרכב. I sold my (the) car. A saleswoman is אשת מכירות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /], while a salesman is איש מכירות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /]. What about multiple salespeople? That’s אנשי מכירות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/אנשי-מכירות-#.m4a” /]אנשי…