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Offline Sarah

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Hebrew, word of the day!
« on: April 12, 2007, 05:19:23 PM »
I was wondering if there could be a thread discussing the Hebrew language and introducing a hefty amount of vocabulary that we can learn. I’m sure it would be helpful for a lot of people and learning Hebrew is a good thing to spend our time on.
It’s a very complicated yet beautiful language and deserves a good discussion into. This may be JTF’s English speaking forum but we shouldn’t rule out Hebrew because we don’t know it.
I only have a few words of Hebrew or Yiddish-not sure-that I’ve learnt, either by chaims mentioning or from posts:
1. DREK
2.SHMUCK
3……hmmmm…..Drek again.

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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2007, 05:40:35 PM »
Thats yiddish not Heb.
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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2007, 06:15:04 PM »
Not hebrew sarah!!  You can do better than that.

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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2007, 06:15:36 PM »
Sarah....

Here are three good beginner words:

Ken = Yes
Lo = No
Toda = Thank you

 ;D

That's pure Hebrew baby!
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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2007, 06:25:01 PM »
Sarah, can't your sister Hajar contribute to this?   :-*
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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2007, 06:29:25 PM »
one to ten in Hebrew, masculine and feminine

'ch' is like lo'ch'

Masucline:

echad
shnaim
shlosha
arba-ah
chamisha
shisha
shiva
shmona
tisha
asarah

feminine:

achat
shtaim
shalosh
arba
chamesh
shesh
sheva
shmoneh
tesha
eser
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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2007, 06:31:23 PM »
Most sources for Hebrew learning seem to be non-Orthodox, I don't know if Orthodox Jews approve of gentiles learning Hebrew.  But I don't know why they would object to gentiles learning modern Hebrew because the Holy Talmud for example was not originally written in Hebrew.  And it is translated into English already. 
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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2007, 06:52:24 PM »
good morning: boker tov
good evening: erev tov
good night: layla tov

how are you?  (to a male) mah schlomcha?
"        "          (to a female) mah schlomech?
"        "          (to men or a mixed gender group) mah schlomchem?
"        "          (to women) mah schlomchen?


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Re: Hebrew, word of the day!
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2007, 07:03:30 PM »
Hey!

Fruit knows some pretty good phrases and is grammatically correct! Not bad!

Oh...and who the heck said it was wrong for Goyim to learn Hebrew? If a stranger lives among the Israelites...I would hope that he/she was able to communicate!
Victory is a thing of the will. -General Ferdinand Foch

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
- General Ferdinand Foch

We have met the enemy and they are ours.
- Oliver Hazard Perry