My very first post on the Hebrew Transparent Blog was about ice cream. It’s been exactly one year, and we are now back again in the midst of the burning season. I can’t let a summer pass without a post about ice cream. It’s sweet, it’s creamy, it’s refreshing, it’s the best icy desert to eat when the temperatures are crazy high (sometimes even 42 degrees Celsius) and the humidity level is unbearable (up to 90 percent).

Since my first post abut ice cream we have improved our Hebrew together: we sang the alphabet, practiced the use of consonantal roots, got familiar with the first person pronoun, expanded our vocabulary and learned how to distinguish feminine from masculine nouns. So now that you have a stronger grip at the Hebrew language, let’s use ice cream for learning a new root:

The infinitive לִזְלוֺל (Liz-lol) means “to gorge” and its root is ז-ל-ל (z-l-l) [פ’ הַפּוֺעַל of this root is ז. ע’ הַפּוֺעַל of this root is ל. ל’ הַפּוֺעַל of this root is ל.] As כ-ת-ב, this root is also a typical tri-consonantal root without irregular. Here is how it conjugated in the past, present and future tenses:

Pronouns	Past	Present	Future
I (masculine) אֲנׅי	זָלַלְתִּי	זוֺלֵל	אֶזְלוֺל
I (feminine) אֲנִי	זָלַלְתִּי	זוֺלֶלֶת	אֶזְלוֺל
We אֲנַחְנוּ	זָלַלְנוּ	זוֺלְלִים	נִזְלוֺל
You (masculine) אַתָּה	זָלַלְתָּ	זוֺלֵל	תִּזְלוֺל
You (feminine) אַתְּ	זָלַלְתְּ	זוֺלֶלֶת	תִּזְלְלִי
You (plural, masculine) אַתֶּם	זְלַלְתֶּם	זוֺלְלִים	תִּזְלְלוּ
You (plural, feminine) אַתֶּן	זְלַלְתֶּן	זוֺלְלוֺת	תִּזְלוֺלְנָה, תִּזְלְלוּ
He הוּא	זָלַל	זוֺלֵל	יִזְלוֺל
She הׅיא	זָלְלָה	זוֺלֶלֶת	תִּזְלוֺל
They (masculine) הֵם	זָלְלוּ	זוֺלְלִים	יִזְלְלוּ
They (feminine) הֵן	זָלְלוּ	זוֺלְלוֺת	תִּזְלוֺלְנָה, יִזְלְלוּ

 

Here are some new ice cream related sentences for practice:

אֲנׅי כּוֺתֶבֶת עַל גְּלִידָה

A-ni ko-te-vet al ge-li-da

I’m writing about ice cream

 

אֲנַחְנוּ רוֺצִים בְּבַקָּשָׁה גְּלִידַת תּוּת

A-nach-nu ro-tzim be-va-ka-sha ge-li-dat tut

We would like to have strawberry ice cream

 

הוּא זוֺלֵל גְּלִידַת וָנִיל

Wu zo-lel ge-li-dat va-nil

He is gorging on vanilla ice cream

 

הֵם זָלְלוּ גְּלִידַת שׁוֹקוֹלָד

Em za-le-lu ge-li-dat sho-ko-lad

They gorged on chocolate ice cream

 

Related posts:

Survive a Long, Hot Israeli Summer with Ice Cream

Beating the Heat in Israel: Ordering Ice Cream in Hebrew

 

Keep Calm and Learn Hebrew

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