Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep.      To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/כתיב-מלא-#.m4a” /]כְּתִיב מָלֵא If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may have noticed that sometimes the word in the title of a post is spelled differently from the same word in the body. The reason is that when a word is vowelized in Hebrew, its pronunciation is clear, but when there…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מתחם-#.m4a” /]מִתְחָם A few weeks ago we saw the Hebrew word for complex meaning complicated in a good way: מורכב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מתחם-#.m4a” /]. But when you want to refer to a complex as a place, the word is מתחם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מתחם-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מתחם-#.m4a” /]מתחם התחנה בירושלים הפך למקום בילוי לכל המשפחה. The Station…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מקומות-בילוי-#.m4a” /]מְקוֹמוֹת בִּלּוּי The Hebrew word בילוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מקומות-בילוי-#.m4a” /] means literally spending time, but it also means having a good time. It comes from the פיעל verb לבלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מקומות-בילוי-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מקומות-בילוי-#.m4a” /]בילינו את הערב במסעדה טובה. We spent the evening at a good restaurant. A place of entertainment is מקום בילוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/מקומות-בילוי-#.m4a”…

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep.      To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /]עוֹבְדִים בְּצַוְתָּא The generic and literal expression for working together is עובדים ביחד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /]אנחנו עובדים ביחד כבר עשר שנים. We’ve been working together already for ten years. A more colorful expression is עובדים בצוותא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /], where צוותא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/עובדים-בצוותא-#.m4a” /], an Aramaic word, means togetherness. For example:…