Weekly YDDH Review

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/גורם-#.m4a” /]גּוֹרֵם Some decisions are easy to make. Others are harder: they have several factors one must consider. Each of these factors, in Hebrew, is called a גורם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/גורם-#.m4a” /]. גורם means literally a cause (it’s a form of the simple פעל verb לגרום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/גורם-#.m4a” /] – to cause). What do causes have to do with factors? A factor allows or…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להחליף-מילה-#.m4a” /]לְהַחְלִיף מִלָּה Hebrew has lots of verbs that have to do with talking, such as: לדבר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להחליף-מילה-#.m4a” /] – to speak לשוחח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להחליף-מילה-#.m4a” /] – to converse להביע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להחליף-מילה-#.m4a” /] – to express A nice, handy expression for to speak with or to have a word with someone is להחליף מילה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/להחליף-מילה-#.m4a” /] – literally, to exchange a word. For…

בִּרְצִינוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-1.mp3″ /] The Hebrew word for serious is רציני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-2.mp3″ /] in the masculine. An example in the feminine plural: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-3.mp3″ /]הן בחורות ממש רציניות. They are really serious young women. In my search for the origin of the word, I came up only with the name of the Aramean king of biblical times,…