weekly video dose – how to say “to complain” in Hebrew
הִתְחַמְּמוּת עוֹלָמִית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/global-warming-4.mp3″ /] This week is hot in Israel (here’s a video we’ve made about that), more so than usual for the season. Some blame it on global warming. As is the case with many terms that didn’t exist in antiquity, Modern Hebrew has three for global warming: הִתְחַמְּמוּת גְּלוֹבָּלִית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/global-warming-2.mp3″ /] borrows global from…
אֲנִי מְתָאֵר לְעַצְמִי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? In English, when we make an assumption and create a potential scenario, we might say “I imagine,” as in: I imagine the neighbors think I’m crazy. In Hebrew, this form of I imagine is אֲנִי מְתָאֵר לְעַצְמִי listen and repeat – literally, I describe to…
לְכָל דָּבָר וְעִנְיָין Growing up I would hear teachers in school use the expression “for all intensive purposes.” I knew what it meant but didn’t think about the words themselves. Only when I saw the expression in a book did the penny drop – it’s “for all intents and purposes.” Now it started making more…
10 Hebrew Color Words 1. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אביב-#.m4a” /]אדום – red Colors describe something, so they’re adjectives. Which means that in Hebrew there are two versions – masculine and feminine. Red in the masculine is אדום, as in הים האדום – the Red Sea. In the feminine it’s אדומה, as in: כיפה אדומה – Little…