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having trouble seeing the print? תַּקָּלָה טֶכְנִית listen and repeat Those of you receiving Your Daily Dose of Hebrew via email may have been disappointed over the past few days, since no emails have gone out. If you’re receiving this one, the problem has been solved. Here’s how to say glitch…
having trouble seeing the print? מְסֻיָּם, נְקֻדָּתִי, סְפֶּצִיפִי listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! The English word specific has a few synonyms: particular, precise, exact, etc. Likewise, Hebrew has more than one word for different situations. The most commonly-used one is transliterated from English: סְפֶּצִיפִי listen and repeat. For example: …
having trouble seeing the print? יְצִיאַת חֵרוּם listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! The Hebrew word for emergency is חֵרוּם listen and repeat, as discussed here. An exit is a יְצִיאָה listen and repeat, coming from the active-simple verb לָצֵאת listen and repeat – to go out – whose root is י.צ.א (y.ts.a). …
having trouble seeing the print? עֲדָשׁוֹת, עֲדָשִׁים listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! See review material at the end of today’s dose… and TEST YOURSELF! The Hebrew words for lens and lentil are the same – עֲדָשָׁה listen and repeat. That’s because when the makers of Modern Hebrew were thinking about what…
having trouble seeing the print? נִתּוּחַ listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! Surgery, as in a surgical operation, is נִתּוּחַ listen and repeat – whereas surgery in the abstract sense, is כִירוּרְגִּיָה listen and repeat – chirurgy transliterated. So, we have: הִיא עָבְרָה נִתּוּחַ. She underwent surgery. listen and הוּא לָמַד…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַרְכִּיב מִשְׁקָפַיִם listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! As for the act of putting on shoes, Hebrew has a special term for to wear glasses: לְהַרְכִּיב מִשְׁקָפַיִם listen and repeat. The word להרכיב means to assemble in other contexts. Regarding glasses, להרכיב listen and repeat,…
having trouble seeing the print? מְחַבֵּל, מְחַבֶּלֶת listen and repeat Mid-Fall Hebrew Courses Starting Soon! Register Now! The most widely-used Hebrew word for terrorist is מְחַבֵּל listen and repeat for a male and מְחַבֶּלֶת listen and repeat for a female. These words are participle forms (also present-tense) of the active-intensive verb לְחַבֵּל listen and repeat, which means…
having trouble seeing the print? אֵין דָּבָר, בַּקְּטַנָּה listen and repeat Deadline Today for Mid-Fall Jerusalem Level 5 and Tel Aviv Level 3 Register Now! Someone spills wine on your new white shirt. It’s an accident. Knowing that the stain will probably come out in the laundry, you might say to them in…
having trouble seeing the print? שָׂרָה listen and repeat Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us See review material at the end of today’s dose. The Hebrew name שָׂרָה listen and repeat – Sarah or Sara in English – appears prominently in the Torah portions of these weeks, climaxing with the title of the portion to be…
having trouble seeing the print? לָדַעַת, לְהַכִּיר listen and repeat Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us We know that the human brain has two hemispheres, left and right, that process information in two more or less distinct ways: rationally and emotionally – left and right, respectively. Modern Hebrew, perhaps unwittingly, employs…
having trouble seeing the print? מְקוֹמִי, מקוֹמִית listen and repeat Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us Today Israelis are voting for the local municipalities – הָרָשֻׁיּוֹת הַמְּקוֹמִיּוֹת listen and repeat. The Hebrew word for local is מְקוֹמִי listen and repeat in the masculine and מְקוֹמִית listen and repeat in the feminine. These words are an adjective form…