[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /]קוֹסֵם The Hebrew word for magic (or sorcery) is קסם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /], so it’s no surprise that קוסם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /] is a male magician, and קוסמת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /] is a female. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /]איך אספיק את כל זה? נראה לך שאני קוסם? How will I manage to do all this? You think…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]מִתְלַמֵּד To learn or to study, in Hebrew, is the simple פעל verb ללמוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]. To teach is the intensive פיעל verb ללמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]. Then there’s להתלמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /], a reflexive התפעל verb. It means literally to teach oneself, though its more common forms are מתלמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /] – trainee (for a male)…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /]לְחָיַיִם You may have looked at the word in the title and thought, isn’t that the Hebrew word for “cheers”? When the words לחיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /] – cheeks, and לחיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /] – to life!, are unvocalized, they look identical, and can only be told apart from context. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /]לכולם יש…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /]מוֹנַרְכְיָה, מְלוּכָה When discussing the idea of monarchy in the academic or political sense, Israelis tend to use מונרכיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /]פעם היו באירופה יותר מונרכיות ממה שיש היום. There used to be more monarchies in Europe than there are today. There’s also the word מלוכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /], which also…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/שטרודל-#.m4a” /]שְׁטְרוּדֶל, כְּרוּכִית The at sign resembles the Austrian pastry, the strudel. Hebrew renders the s in its German pronunciation, so the common word for @ in Hebrew is שטרודל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/שטרודל-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/שטרודל-#.m4a” /]המייל לא נשלח כי שכחו להוסיף שטרודל. The email wasn’t sent because they forgot to add an at sign….