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| Shira: Hello everyone. Welcome back to HebrewPod101.com. This is the last All About Lesson Number 15 – Top Five Pet Phrases. I'm Shira. |
| Amir: [ואני אמיר] (Ve'a'ni a'mir) |
| Shira: After years of living in Israel, Amir, I have some pet phrases to share. |
| Amir: Go ahead. |
| Shira: After a while, you will have you own favorite phrases too. But for now, we'll give you some of ours. |
| Amir: These are all phrases that Israelis use a lot. |
| Shira: They're kind of like the "cool" and "awesome" of English. You'll fit in right away when you use them. |
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| Shira: Now, our favorite phrases, Amir. |
| Amir: Ok, here we go. [אפשר לבקש ממך משהו] (Ef'shar le'va'kesh mim'kha ma'she'hu?) |
| Shira: Can I request something from you? |
| Amir: [אין בעיה] (E'in Be'ayah) |
| Shira: No problem. |
| Amir: [איפה השירותים] (E'ifo ha'shi'ru'tim?) |
| Shira: Where's the toilet? |
| Amir: [בוא נלך] (Bo nelekh) |
| Shira: Let's go. |
| Amir: [באמת] (Be'emet?) |
| Shira: "Really?" Let's hear these phrases one more time, slowly. |
| Amir: [?אפשר לבקש ממך משהו] (Ef'shar le'va'kesh mim'kha ma'she'hu?) |
| Shira: Can I request something from you? |
| Amir: [אין בעיה] (E'in Be'ayah) |
| Shira: No problem. |
| Amir: [?איפה השירותים] (E'ifo ha'shi'ru'tim?) |
| Shira: Where's the toilet? |
| Amir: [בוא נלך] (Bo nelekh) |
| Shira: Let's go. |
| Amir: [באמת?] (Be'emet?) |
| Shira: "Really?" |
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| Shira: Let's take a close look at how to use these Hebrew expressions. |
| Amir: Pet phrase number one is [?אפשר לבקש ממך משהו] (Ef'shar le'va'kesh mim'kha ma'she'hu?). |
| Shira: Basically this is the polite way of getting someone's attention by asking the person "Can I request something from you?" |
| Amir: Exactly. [?אפשר לבקש ממך משהו] (Ef'shar le'va'kesh mim'kha ma'she'hu?) |
| Shira: It's also generally used when you want to ask someone a favor. |
| Amir: So for example, I might ask you for directions and start off by saying [אפשר לבקש ממך משהו] (Ef'shar le'va'kesh mim'kha ma'she'hu?). |
| Shira: Can I request something from you? Where's the post office? |
| Amir: Good work, Shira. |
| Shira: Thank you. That was very useful. |
| Amir: Pet phrase number two is [אין בעיה] (E'in Be'ayah). |
| Shira: This is a great phrase. Basically it's the Hebrew equivalent of "forget about it" or "no problem." |
| B; So for example, if someone steps on your foot you can say [אין בעיה] (E'in Be'ayah). |
| Shira: Or if something weird happens, just throw out a [אין בעיה] (E'in Be'ayah). |
| Amir: We love this expression and we use it all the time. |
| Shira: Yes we do. |
| Amir: Pet phrase number three is [איפה השירותים?] (E'ifo ha'shi'ru'tim?). |
| Shira: Now here's the ultimate life saver. |
| Amir: Yes. Not knowing how to ask for directions to the toilet can be a matter of life and death. |
| Shira: Indeed, so this, as you might have guessed, means "Where's the toilet?" |
| Amir: This is a very useful phrase. |
| Shira: Yeah, it saved me in so many situations. And absolute must know phrase. |
| Amir: Ok, so on to number four. Pet phrase four is [בוא נלך] (Bo nelekh). |
| Shira: Ok, this is a great phrase for when you want to leave some place but you don't want to go alone. |
| Amir: It means "Let's go" but it literally means "Come, we go." |
| Shira: So first of all, let's get this down. |
| Amir: [בוא נלך] (Bo nelekh) |
| Shira: How about an example of how we can use this in a sentence. |
| Amir: [בוא נלך לחוף הים] (Bo nelekh le'khof hayam) |
| Shira: This means "Let's go to the beach." |
| Amir: How about [בואי נלך הביתה עכשיו] (Bo'i nelekh haba'itah akshav). |
| Shira: No, no, not yet. Nice try though. |
| Amir: We can't go home yet. We still have one more phrase to tell them. |
| Amir: So pet phrase number five is [באמת?] (Be'emet?). |
| Shira: [באמת] (Be'emet?). It means "Really?" |
| Amir: [באמת?] (Be'emet?) |
| Shira: This phrase can be used when you want to express surprise, doubt or something else along those lines, just like we would use "Really?" or "Really?" in English. |
| Amir: Yes, it's a great interjection. |
| Shira: Well, those were our favorite phrases in Hebrew. |
| Amir: We hope you like them too. |
| Shira: We're sure you'll find lots of uses for them. |
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| Shira: So that's it for this lesson. Thanks for… |
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