Heblish Lesson: Day 8
Conjunctions
Free Heblish Challenge – January 2010 – Training – Day 8:
Hi!
Day 8 and the last lesson in January.
Now that we have completed one month of lessons, I must admit that preparing the lessons is taking more time than I had anticipated. Also, several students have mentioned that they are struggling to keep up. With that in mind, I have decided to have only one lesson a week (on Thursdays) beginning in February. I really want to keep the lessons of high quality and free of charge, so I think this change in our schedule will be beneficial to all.
But, this is not to say that you are going to take a vacation! I’m still waiting to read your questions of “how should I say _______ in Hebrew.” As I mentioned in Lesson 7, you can “Leave a Reply” at the bottom of the page, and I will respond to you.
In our previous lesson we talked about the conjunctions “and,” (ve) and “the” (ha) and we also looked at some new words regarding “food,” like dag, chips…
So what we are going to learn today?
Today’s menu: “Also,” and “for me”
Also
For “also” we say “gam.”
Therefore, to say: “Fish and French fries and also ketchup,” you should say: Dag ve‘chips ve’gam ketchup.”
In Hebrew we use the same word as you do for ketchup.
If you want to be polite, you can add the word “bevakasha” (please) which we learned in Lesson 3: Dag ve‘chips ve’gam ketchup, bevakasha.
More examples:
I have a car and also a truck – I have a car ve‘gam a truck.
The fish is good, and also the salad – ha‘dag tov ve‘gam ha‘salat
For me
In Hebrew “for me” is only one word: bishvili
Bishvil is “for.” The last “i” makes it “for me.”
For me – bishvili
For him – bishvilo
For her – bishvila
Example:
For me, lamb and baked potatoes, and for her, fish and French fries and also ketchup, please.
Wow, what a long sentence…
Bishvili, lamb and baked potatoes,
ve‘bishvila dag ve‘chips ve‘gam ketchup, bevakasha.
Let’s learn two more words before we go on:
Lamb – keves
Baked potatoes – tapu^ey adama
Now let’s do it again, but slowly:
For me, lamb and baked potatoes, and for her, fish and French fries and also ketchup, please.
For me – bishvili
Lamb – keves
And baked potatoes – ve‘tapu^ey adama
And for her – ve‘bishvila
Fish – dag
And French fries – ve‘chips
And also – ve‘gam
Ketchup – ketchup
Please – bevakasha.
Bishvili, keves ve‘tapu^ey adama, ve‘bishvila dag ve‘chips ve‘gam ketchup, bevakasha.
Shoot me!… 😉
I’m waiting for your questions.
Lehitraot in Lesson 9.
Hi Yaron,
I know you are concentrating on food but how do you say I would like a beverage,like soda, coffee, tea or water? And how do you say “may I have a knife, fork or spoon”? Or is that going to be in the future lessons?
Thank you.
Maria
You jumped to lesson 20… 😉 but you are right, Maria, the first thing I should teach you is “I would like…” and maybe also “how much…” But you asked and I will answer. For “I would like a glass of soda”, *you*, as a woman, should say: “Ani mevakeshet koss soda”. Thank you for your great question.
Dear Yaron, I loved the lesson, but it made me go out and get fish and french fries for lunch – “Shalom/bye” to my diet!
I’m going out jogging, if you want to join me…
Yaron, can you please tell me – what is the word for “because”? Sometimes I hear people say “ki” and sometimes they say “ulay”. Which is it?
You are right, Kelly, “because” it is “ki” in Hebrew, but there are more words for “because” and we will learn them, but none of them is “ulay”. “Ulay” is “maybe”…
Bishvili rock glidah.
Bishvili RAK glida… 😉
Only = rak
dear yaron, thank you thank you thank you ! if i learn hebrew it will all be thanks to you
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helen
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Toda Sylvie 😉
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i find you are making a great job.
Bishvili it’s like to walk a bridge toward my bro.
i visited Israel two times and really i was regretted being unable to form a phrase…i felt just like a martian on the earth 😉
with these lessons i hope next time….
Todav Yaron
by a “goym” in Milan 😉
You are welcome, Stefano.
Toda 😉
Shalom Yaron,please tell me what a prophet,queen,prince,princess is in Hebrew ki ani think king is melech.
Shalom Msizi,
You are almost right, “king” is “mele^” (we are not using “ch” instead of “^” – please take a look here: https://www.free-hebrew.com/vocalizing/heblish-lesson-day-6/).
Prophet is navi – Na-vi.
Queen is malka – Mal-ka.
Prince is nasi^ – Na=si^.
Princess us nesi^a – Ne-si-^a.
Enjoy,
Yaron