weekly video dose – how to say “jealousy” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/קטנטן-#.m4a” /]קְטַנְטַן Hebrew has a few ways of taking a word and making it small and cute (a diminutive). One of those ways is to somehow double the ending, as in: כלבלב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/קטנטן-#.m4a” /] – puppy (dog is כלב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/קטנטן-#.m4a” /]) חתלתול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/קטנטן-#.m4a” /] – kitten (cat is חתול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/קטנטן-#.m4a” /]) קטנטן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/קטנטן-#.m4a” /] – tiny little (small or little…

יְמֵי הַבֵּינַיִם   Can’t read Hebrew yet?   The Hebrew word for between is בֵּין   , so that in-between is בֵּינַיִם   .   Medieval times, or the Middle Ages, are thus called יְמֵי הַבֵּינַיִם    – literally, the in-between days.   For example:   הָיוּ וִכּוּחִים פִילוֹסוֹפִיִּם גְּדוֹלִים בֵּין רַבָּנִים בִּימֵי הַבֵּינַיִם. There were great philosophical arguments among…

מַחְזִיק מַפְתְּחוֹת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחזיק-מפתחות-1.mp3″ /] You’re coming towards the end of your trip, and it’s time to buy souvenirs – מַזְכָּרוֹת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחזיק-מפתחות-2.mp3″ /]. Beyond the “all I got was this t-shirt” gift, a very economical trinket is a key chain. The Hebrew term for this is מַחְזִיק מַפְתְּחוֹת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחזיק-מפתחות-1.mp3″ /] – literally, a holder of keys….

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כנראה-1.mp3″ /]כַּנִּרְאֶה People in Israel have gone back to school and work. Apparently, Passover is over. The Hebrew word for apparently is כַּנִּרְאֶה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כנראה-1.mp3″ /] – literally, as appears or as is seen. It is also used to mean it looks as if or it’s likely that. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כנראה-2.mp3″ /]כַּנִּרְאֶה שֶׁהֵם יָבֹאוּ לְבַקֵּר בַּשָּׁבוּעַ הַבָּא. It looks like they’ll come…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צום-קל-1.m4a” /]צוֹם קָל, צוֹם מוֹעִיל Before Yom Kippur, Jews like to wish one another an easy fast – or, upon reflecting that the fast is not supposed to be easy, they might wish their fellow a productive fast. Have an easy fast – literally, just easy fast – is צום קל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צום-קל-2.m4a” /], where צום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צום-קל-3.m4a” /]…