Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]תִּזְמוּן, עִיתּוּי Hebrew has several words for time. The common one is זמן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]אין לי זמן! I don’t have time! זמן yields the word תזמון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /] – timing, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]הגענו ביחד, בתזמון מושלם. We arrived together – (in) perfect timing. A fancier word for time is…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/לפנות-#.m4a” /]לְפַנּוֹת To clear something out of the way is the פיעל verb לפנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/לפנות-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/לפנות-#.m4a” /]פינינו את כל הרהיטים בסלון כדי לפתוח את השולחן הגדול. We cleared out all the furniture in the living room in order to open the big table. לפנות also means to evacuate: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/לפנות-#.m4a” /]הם…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/שלוק-#.m4a” /]אֶפְשָׁר שְׁלוּק? לְגִימָה? To sip, in Hebrew, is the simple verb ללגום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/שלוק-#.m4a” /]. Thus a sip is לגימה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/שלוק-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/שלוק-#.m4a” /]אחרי לגימה ארוכה של אספרסו היא הרגישה מוכנה ליום הארוך שלפניה. After a long sip of espresso she felt ready for the long day ahead of her. But…