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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לקלות-1.m4a” /]לִקְלוֹת, לִצְלוֹת While in English a roast might involve a person (who doesn’t actually get eaten), in Hebrew the term refers only to food. Well, it’s two terms, one for veggies and one for meat. לקלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לקלות-2.m4a” /] means to roast that which grows from the ground, such as sunflower seeds and chestnuts. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לקלות-3.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הורים-1.m4a” /]הוֹרִים English speakers who didn’t grow up using the kh sound (as in chutzpah) often find it difficult to distinguish between the Hebrew h and kh sounds. Thus when they learn Hebrew, they might confuse the words חורים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הורים-2.m4a” /] – holes and הורים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הורים-1.m4a” /] – parents. הורים is the plural form of הורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הורים-3.m4a” /] – a…
לְהִסְתַּפֵּק Hear this word pronounced Over the past couple of days we’ve seen words from the root ס.פ.ק (s.p.k), meaning, enough or satisfaction. Today’s word doesn’t have a literal translation in English. It means, roughly, to have enough or to make due. The word is the התפעל (heet-pah-EL) form of the root, namely, לְהִסְתַּפֵּק (leh-hees-tah-PEK). A well-known saying…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/סופת-ברקים-#.m4a” /]סוּפַת בְּרָקִים Hebrew has several words for storm, most notably including סערה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/סופת-ברקים-#.m4a” /] and סופה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/סופת-ברקים-#.m4a” /]. The latter is one used in conjunction with lightning to create סופת ברקים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/סופת-ברקים-#.m4a” /] – lightning storm. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/סופת-ברקים-#.m4a” /]יש בתחזית סופת ברקים – אל תסתובב בחוץ. There’s a lightning storm in the forecast…
