Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/מיותר-#.m4a” /]מְיֻתָּר Another word in English for unnecessary is extraneous. This translates beautifully with the Hebrew מיותר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/מיותר-#.m4a” /], which comes from the word יותר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/מיותר-#.m4a” /] meaning more or extra. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/מיותר-#.m4a” /]יש לנו איברים מיותרים בגוף. We have unnecessary (extraneous) organs in (our) body. מיותר is a passive פועל form of the root י.ת.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/מיותר-#.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/איבר-#.m4a” /]אֵיבָר I’m not referring to organ the instrument – that’s אורגן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/איבר-#.m4a” /]. I’m talking about an organ that helps enables our body to function. The Hebrew word for that is איבר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/איבר-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/איבר-#.m4a” /]הם מתפללים לרפואת כל האיברים והגידים. They pray for the healing of all the organs and tendons. איבר…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/גיד-#.m4a” /]גִּיד The Hebrew word for tendon – that thing, like a ligament, that we’d rather not tear – is גיד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/גיד-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/גיד-#.m4a” /]יש לי קרע בגיד. I have a tear in my (the) tendon. A ligament is a רצועה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/גיד-#.m4a” /], which is also a strap or a strip: the Gaza…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/קרע-#.m4a” /]קֶרַע The Hebrew word for to tear or to rip is לקרוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/קרע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/קרע-#.m4a” /]הוא קרע את הנייר מרוב כעס. He ripped the paper out of (so much) anger. A קרע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/קרע-#.m4a” /] is a rip or a rupture. Such a rupture can be physical or proverbial, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/קרע-#.m4a” /]הקרע בין הילדים…

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/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /]הֶכֵּרוּת While English has one basic word for to know, Hebrew has two: לדעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /] and להכיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /]. And while לדעת, in Modern Hebrew, means to know information, להכיר means to know a person or to be familiar with someone or something. Thus getting to know each other is היכרות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/היכרות-#.m4a”…