Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/חיים-שלי-#.m4a” /]חַיִּים שֶׁלִּי People use אהובתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/חיים-שלי-#.m4a” /] and אהובי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/חיים-שלי-#.m4a” /] (literally, my love, referring respectively to a female and a male) as a term of endearment. But a more common and dramatic expression of love is חיים-שלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/חיים שלי-#.m4a” /] – literally, my life. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/חיים-שלי-#.m4a” /]חיים שלי, תכבי את…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/סוף-הדרך-#.m4a” /]סוֹף הַדֶּרֶךְ In English, when we call something the end of the road, we refer to something sad or tragic. While Hebrew does use סוף הדרך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/סוף-הדרך-#.m4a” /] – the end of the road – to refer to something’s sometimes-tragic end, in the right context it refers to something that was amazing. For example: [audioclip…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ביש-מזל-#.m4a” /]בִּישׁ מַזָּל You may have been congratulating people with Mazel Tov – מזל טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ביש-מזל-#.m4a” /] – your whole life and not realized that it means literally, good luck. Well, bad luck is either מזל רע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ביש-מזל-#.m4a” /], or the more common and true-to-the-sources (the Talmudic ones) expression, ביש מזל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ביש-מזל-#.m4a” /]. For example:…