Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /]כְּתוֹבֶת קַעֲקַע, קַעֲקוּעַ The Biblical-Hebrew term for tattoo is כתובת קעקע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /] – kaka writing. People still use כתובת קעקע today, but the far more commonly-used term is קעקוע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /]יש לו מלא קעקועים! He has tons of tattoos! The word קעקע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/קעקוע-#.m4a” /] (kaka) probably comes from…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/לעזאזל-#.m4a” /]לַעֲזָאזֵל Although in day-to-day speech לעזאזל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/לעזאזל-#.m4a” /] has fallen out of use, you’ll still find it in subtitles for Israeli TV and film in place of your favorite English curse word. It can mean anything from to hell with it and what the hell? to other items I don’t want to spell out on…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/כרגע-#.m4a” /]כָּרֶגַע, כָּעֵת In addition to עכשיו[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/כרגע-#.m4a” /] – now, Hebrew has two ways of saying at the moment: כרגע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/כרגע-#.m4a” /] (literally as of the moment) and כעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/כרגע-#.m4a” /] (as of the time). In everyday speech you’ll hear כרגע, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/כרגע-#.m4a” /]כרגע אנחנו נמצאים בשער יפו. At the moment we’re…