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how to say “rare” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 25, 2018October 18, 2018

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-1.m4a” /]נָדִיר This post is about rare in the sense of not so common – נדיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-1.m4a” /]. Rare meat is בשר נא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-2.m4a” /]. Here’s נדיר in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-3.m4a” /]החוקרת מצאה כלי חרס מאוד נדיר בחפירה. The (female) researcher found a very rare piece of pottery in the dig. This word is derived from…

how to say “football” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger August 22, 2010November 5, 2018

Someone asked me to feature football (if you’d like to have a word or phrase featured, visit our request page.) I don’t know whether s/he is referring to the game played in the World Cup or to that played with a pigskin in the States, so I’m going to feature both. …

how to say “salty” and “saltbush” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 25, 2011November 7, 2018

מָלוּחַ My סַבְתָּא (SAHV-tah) grandmother is a great cook. She learned how to prepare delicious dishes from her mother back in Hungary before the war. סבתא has Hungarian taste in food. So from time to time she asks me, אֲתָּה אוֹהֵב דָּג מָלוּחַ (ah-TAH oh-HEV dahg mah-LOO-ahkh) – Do you like salty fish?…

how to say “to spill” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 18, 2021November 14, 2024

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לשפוך-#.m4a” /]לִשְׁפּוֹךְ, לְהִישָּׁפֵךְ The word לשפוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לשפוך-#.m4a” /], a פעל verb, is to spill something, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לשפוך-#.m4a” /]אוי, שפכתי את החלב על הרצפה! Oh no, I spilled the milk on the floor! But that’s when we actively spill something. The thing that gets spilled is נשפך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לשפוך-#.m4a” /] (if it’s grammatically masculine), as in:…

The Story of Israel

ByAaron March 5, 2020

how to say “lentil soup” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger November 15, 2020November 12, 2020

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /]מְרַק עֲדָשִׁים The Hebrew word for soup is מרק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /]מרק בחורף בא לי בטוב. Soup in the winter does me good. A lentil is עדשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /], while lentils are עדשים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /], so lentil soup is מרק עדשים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /]: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מרק-עדשים-#.m4a” /]מה זה הריח הזה, מרק עדשים? What’s…

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