Blog – 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/2019/02/מחצית-#.m4a” /]מַחֲצִית Halftime is a concept familiar to sports lovers around the world, whether it’s soccer or American football or basketball. The Hebrew word for halftime is מחצית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/מחצית-#.m4a” /], which also means a half and a semester. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/מחצית-#.m4a” /]הם ניצחו במחצית השנייה. They won in the second half. מחצית comes from the…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לנצח-#.m4a” /]לְנַצֵּחַ The Hebrew word for to win is לנצח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לנצח-#.m4a” /], a פיעל verb of the root נ.צ.ח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לנצח-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לנצח-#.m4a” /]רק האהבה תנצח את כל הדמעות. Only (the) love will defeat all the tears. If you read the word לנצח by itself, you might think it means forever, which is pronounced…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להזיל-דמעה-#.m4a” /]לְהַזִּיל דִּמְעָה As I began writing this post I coughed and teared. The Hebrew expression for to shed a tear is להזיל דמעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להזיל-דמעה-#.m4a” /]. It doesn’t exactly fit my coughing fit, since להזיל דמעה is a flowery expression that implies tears of emotion, not of disruptions in the respiratory system. Here’s the expression in…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להוזיל-#.m4a” /]לְהוֹזִיל If you’ve spent even a few days in Israel, you probably came across the word זול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להוזיל-#.m4a” /] – cheap. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להוזיל-#.m4a” /]זה לא זול! This is not cheap! To lower prices – to make them cheaper – is להוזיל מחירים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להוזיל-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/להוזיל-#.m4a” /]המוצר החדש הזה יוזיל את…