Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חיטוי-ידיים-#.m4a” /]חוֹמֶר לְחִיטּוּי יָדַיִים The Hebrew word חטא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חיטוי-ידיים-#.m4a” /] means sin, but also uncleanness. Thus לחטא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חיטוי-ידיים-#.m4a” /] – to disinfect – essentially means to remove uncleanness. Converting this פיעל verb לחטא to its noun form, we get חיטוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חיטוי-ידיים-#.m4a” /] – disinfecting or sanitizing (the א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חיטוי-ידיים-#.m4a” /] of the root sometimes becomes a י[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חיטוי-ידיים-#.m4a” /]). And hand sanitizer?…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /]חוֹם נָמוּךְ The Hebrew word for short (in height) low is נמוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /]מפלס הכינרת היה נמוך מאוד. The (water) level of the Sea of Galilee was very low. A fever is חום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/חום-נמוך-#.m4a” /] – the same word as heat. Thus a low fever or a low-grade fever is חום נמוך[audioclip…

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/2020/10/למספר-#.m4a” /]לְמַסְפֵּר If you’ve got some basic Hebrew under your belt, you probably know the word for number – מספר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/למספר-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/למספר-#.m4a” /]פעם היינו זוכרים מספרי טלפון בעל פה. We used to remember phone numbers by heart. But do you know how to say to number, as in to number items in a list?…