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Conversational Hebrew: A place to start the morning Posted by Sean Young on Mar 10, 2014
Leah and Miri are sitting in a cafe in Jerusalem having breakfast. Daniel comes and asks if he can sit at the table and strikes up a conversation. דָּנִיאֵל: אֲנִי רוֹאֶה אֶתְכֶן כָּאן לְעִתִּים-קְרוֹבוֹת.אַתֶּן בָּאוֹת לְכָאן כָּל יוֹם? מִירִי: כֵּן, זֶה מָקוֹם נֶחְמָד לְהַתְחִיל בּוֹ אֶת הַבֹּקֶר. דָּנִיאֵל: גַּם אֲנִי אוֹהֵב לִקְנוֹת קָפֶה בַּדֶּרֶךְ…
Going to the Dentist Posted by Sean Young on Feb 28, 2014
Initial Vocabulary רוֹפֵא שִׁנַּיִם – dentist הרדמה – anesthetic חוֹר – cavity נִיב – canine tooth צַד שְׂמוֹל – left side לְמַעלָה – upper jaw סְתִימָה – filling זְרִיקָה – injection מַקדֵחָה – drill (noun) The other day I had an appointment with the רוֹפֵא שִׁנַּיִם. As I’m sitting in the chair and my mouth…
Verbs in Action: Back to the Future? Posted by Sean Young on Feb 11, 2014
Conjugating a pa’al verb into the future tense is going to take a little bit of learning to do here. I’m going to focus on the root ס-ג-ר, which gives the idea of closing and show you how it’s done. Ready? In the future tense, there are four prefix letters before the root. They are…
Verbs in Action: Binyan Pa’al Posted by Sean Young on Jan 30, 2014
The binyan פָּעַל is the most basic and simplest to understand conjugation to learn. It does not contain any special identifying markers other than the root letters. In most פָּעַל conjugations, the stem consists of the sequence CoCeC – פּוֹעֵל. The vowels ‘o’ and ‘e’ are the stem vowels that help create most of the…
Verbs in Action: The Seven Binyanim Posted by Sean Young on Jan 27, 2014
Hebrew vocabulary is quite flexible when you think about it. This is because Hebrew words are based on roots consisting of 3 consonants; you may find some with 2 or 4 consonants, but you won’t find them very often. From these roots you can modify them by changing the vowels, or adding certain prefixes, suffixes…
A Look at Grammar: The Direct Object Posted by Sean Young on Jan 22, 2014
In this article, we’re going to look at a part of Hebrew grammar that beginning students often want to know. There’s a particle in Hebrew (אֵת) that isn’t translated into English. This particle indicates that a ‘direct object’ is ahead in that sentence. A direct object answers the ‘what’ or ‘whom’ in a sentence (for…
Using Facebook in Hebrew – The Sequel Posted by Sean Young on Jan 16, 2014
Have you been using your Facebook account in Hebrew? Has it been helping you with your Hebrew studies? Let me help you out with interacting in Hebrew as you read and write your posts. Here are some commonly used sentences and phrases that I’ve collected for you. Enjoy! Did your hear about… – שָׁמַעְתָּ/שָׁמַעְתְּ עַל……