Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /]מְלוּנָה You may know the Hebrew word for hotel – מלון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /]ישנו במלון חמישה כוכבים בים המלח. We stayed (slept) in a five-star hotel at the Dead Sea. מלון comes from the root ל.ו.נ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /] meaning staying overnight. A related word is מלונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/מלונה-#.m4a” /], which in biblical…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/להכחיש-#.m4a” /]לְהַכְחִישׁ, לְהִתְכַּחֵשׁ Hebrew has two ways of saying to deny. להכחיש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/להכחיש-#.m4a” /] means to deny a fact, to contradict it – directly, actively. It’s a הפעיל verb of the root כ.ח.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/להכחיש-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/להכחיש-#.m4a” /]הוא הכחיש את כל העובדות שהצביעו על כך שהוא אשם. He denied all the facts that pointed…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/חם-מהרגיל-#.m4a” /]חַם מֵהָרָגִיל It’s been unseasonably warm in Israel. When temperatures are higher than average like they have been, you’ll hear on the news חם מהרגיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/חם-מהרגיל-#.m4a” /] – literally, hotter than the regular. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/חם-מהרגיל-#.m4a” /]השבוע יהיה חם מהרגיל לעונה. This week will be warmer than usual for the season. Cooler…

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/2021/09/מחזמר-#.m4a” /]מַחֲזֶמֶר מחזה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/מחזמר-#.m4a” /] means a play or a display, and זמר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/מחזמר-#.m4a” /] means song or singing. Modern Hebrew combined the two words, creating מחזמר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/מחזמר-#.m4a” /] – a musical. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/מחזמר-#.m4a” /]פנטום האופרה הוא מחזמר מצליח ביותר. The Phantom of the Opera is a very successful musical. In the plural מחזמר becomes…