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Free Hebrew lessons – November 2010 – Training – Day 45

Shalom ve’boker tov (Hi and good morning),

Today we will talk…

In our previous lesson we learned about the “ti” suffix for first person (“I”) past tense verbs.

Today, we will review some of the verbs we’ve learned in our previous lessons, and try to use them with some words we learned in lesson 11. No rules, no headaches…

Today’s menu: Let’s talk

Attention: The underlined letters represent the accent.

Let’s take a look at the verbs we learned in lesson 39:

English Verb	Hebrew Verb
break	shover
count	sofer
drive	noheg
close	soger
sell	mo^er
wear	lovesh

 

Now, let’s see the words we learned in lesson 11:

Feminine nouns – dress, cake, ring

English singular	Heblish singular	English plural	Heblish plural
dress	simla	dresses	smalot
cake	uga	cakes	ugot
ring	tabaat (ta–ba–at)	rings	tabaot

 

Masculine nouns – book, bottle, bracelet

English singular	Heblish singular	English plural	Heblish plural
book	sefer	books	sfarim
bottle	bakbuk	bottles	bakbukim
bracelet	tsamid	bracelets	tsmidim

 

Present Tense

I break the bottle (m) – ani shover et ha’bakbuk.

I count cakes  (f) –     ani soferet ugot.
He counts cakes – hu sofer ugot.

I’m driving my car (f) – ani noheget ba’me^onit sheli. (me^onit: a car, sheli: my or mine.)

I close the book (m) – ani soger et ha’sefer.
I close the book (f) – ani sogeret et ha’sefer.

I sell bracelets (m) – ani mo^er tsmidim.
I sell bracelets (f) – ani mo^eret tsmidim.

I wear the dress (f) – ani loveshet et ha’simla.
I’m wearing a dress (f) – ani loveshet simla.

 

Past Tense
Remember: for first person past tense there is no gender.

I broke a bottle (m)+(f) – shavarti bakbuk.

I counted cakes (m)+(f) – safarti ugot.
I counted books – who can guess what the Hebrew translation for this is? (Answer at the end of the lesson)

I drove her car (m)+(f) – nahagti ba’me^onit shela.

I closed the window (m)+(f) – sagarti et ha’^alon (window = ^alon)

I sold bracelets (m)+(f) – ma^arti tsmidim.

I wore my dress (m…)+(f) – lavashti et ha’simla sheli. (sheli: my or mine)

 

Future Tense

I will break the bottle (m)+(f) – eshbor et ha’bakbuk.

We will count the books (m)+(f) – nispor et ha’sfarim.

I will drive his car (m)+(f) – enhag ba’me^onit shelo (his = shelo).

I will close the bottle (m)+(f) – esgor et ha’bakbuk.

I will sell the ring (m)+(f) – emkor et ha’tabaat

I will wear the dress (m…)+(f) – elbash et ha’simla.

OK, and what about “I counted books” which I asked you about before?

I counted books – safarti sfarim. Looks similar?
The word sofer (count) is a verb. Its root is ” s.f.r.”

The word sefer (book) is a noun, and although we haven’t studied it yet, there are some nouns which have a root. The root for book, sefer, is also ” s.f.r.”

After this lesson, you may have some questions. If you don’t, something is wrong… because I used some inflections you haven’t seen before…

I’ll be waiting for your questions via my e-mail address, our Comments section here, or in our Facebook group…

Lehitraot in lesson 46…