Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]אוֹתִיּוֹת כְּתָב You may have heard that Hebrew has a 22-letter alphabet. That’s true, but there are two caveats:  Five of those letters have a slightly different form – in most cases an elongated form – when appearing at the end of a word – כ-ך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /], [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]מ-ם, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /]מַשָּׂאִית We saw yesterday that a carrier of a virus is a נשא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /] if he’s male and נשאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /] if she’s female. The root of these is נ.ש.א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /]. Another good word to know of the same root is משאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /] – truck. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /]צריך רישיון מיוחד…