Hi listeners! How do you usually travel?

the translation for owing as 'hi-gi-ah" was come much is arriving is truly awkward, but the English equivalent could also perhaps be translated "how much is coming to you"

And in answer to Ayla, there are English equivalents: When is the bus "supposed" to arrive? Using a compound verb structure. Similarly, a compound structure equivalent 'how much time will it take to arrive'?

I have two questions:

צריך להגיע לקיבוץ יגור - why do we say צריך as that means usually means 'needs' so it is saying the bus needs to arrive at Kibbutz Yigur, when in English we would just ask if the bus will arrive at Kibbutz Yigur. Why is the צריך needed in Hebrew?

Similarly, in כמה זמן לוקח להגיע, what does the לוקח mean and why can we not say כמה זמן להגיע?

Thank you!

Hi Bruce!

Thank you for your message and for pointing out the confusion. 😊 Let's clarify this:

1. שעה ורבע (sha'ah v'reva / an hour and a quarter): This phrase is used to indicate "an hour and a quarter," where "ורבע" (v'reva) means "and a quarter."

2. רבע שעה (reva sha'ah / a quarter of an hour): This phrase is used to mean "a quarter of an hour," which is 15 minutes.

The "ו" (vav) in שעה ורבע (sha'ah v'reva) means "and," which is why it's used when you are adding a quarter to an hour. However, when you just say רבע שעה (reva sha'ah), it means "a quarter of an hour" without the need for "and."

Thank you for bringing this up! חג שמח (Chag Sameach / Happy Holiday)! 🎉

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

תודה (Todah / Thank you),

Team HebrewPod101.com

Confused about grammer-In the dialogue it says

שעה ורבע

For an hour and a quarter

In the vocabulary under רבע

It says

הם רבע שעה

Why reversed and why no "ו"

תודה

הג סמח

Hi חנה,

Thank you for your comment!😄

לנסוע במכונית זה באמת נוח! ככה אפשר להגיע לכל מקום בקלות.

(Traveling by car is really convenient! It makes it easy to get wherever you need to go.)

Happy learning!

Yours,

Tal

Team Hebrewpod101.com

.אני בדרך כלל נוסעת במכונית

Hi יחזקאל,

Thank you for your comment!😄

Happy learning!

Yours,

Tal

Team Hebrewpod101.com

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Hi Tünde,

Thank you for your comment!😄

Good question!

Hebrew script operates as an abjad, excluding the representation of vowels, the letters yod and vav assume the role of indicating vowels. Yet, a complication arises with the final vav, which could be pronounced as either "o" or "u". This made a method to differentiate words that concluded with "v" from those ending in "o" or "u" necessary.

In our case the yod in the word "עכשיו" (akh'shav) which means "now," differentiates the vowelling with "yod" with the pronunciation "akh'shav" to differentiate it with the other readings of words that end with "vav."

Have a pleasant learning!

Yours,

Tal

Team Hebrewpod101.com

Hello,

I have a question about Lesson number 3. The word now ( עכשיו) why the letter yod at the end?

Hi Arik,

Thank you for your comment! 😄

Good question!

As a linguistic rule when the letter "Het", "ח", has the vowel of "Patach" under it like this "חַ", and it's at the end of a word it's pronounced as "ach."

There is no need in the letter "Alef", "א" before it since it's in the words' root and if written is vowelled, its pronounciation is already guided by the vowels.

Let's try to remember the rule written above:

"when the letter "Het", "ח", has the vowel of "Patach" under it like this "חַ", and it's at the end of a word, it's pronounced as "ach."

The word "Ta'pu'ach", "תַּפּוּחַ", which means "apple", in Hebrew, follows the same pronunciation rule.😄

Looking forward to hear more from you!

Yours,

Tal

Hi,

Why is "לוֹקֵחַ" pronounced lo-ke-ach?

Shouldn't it be pronounced lo-ke-cha? Where is the "a" vowel between the kaf and the chet letters?

I would write lo-ke-ach as "לקאח".

Hi אמל,

Thanks for posting your feedback on this lesson!

This is a nice suggestion and we might use this idea to make a new lesson on digitalization in the future. In the meantime, this lesson can remain as the main goal here is to introduce new vocabulary and phrases that are still useful in a variety of situations...

Enjoy learning Hebrew and keep up the great work 👍👍

Yours,

Roi

Team HebrewPod101.com

שלום

The Cultural Insights section needs update with digitalization of the payment method, no buying tickets from bus drivers and the nearing point of no Cash for tickets etc. " You can buy tickets in the bus terminals or from the bus driver himself, and the bus drivers do carry change if you only have larger bills."

Shalom Tahir and Henia Stein,

Thank you both for commenting on this lesson and sharing your thoughts and feedback!

@Henia - I could not detect any missing parts in the dialogue/audio. Could you be a little more specific?

Keep up the great work!

Yours,

Roi

Team HebrewPod101.com

Hi. The dialogue is missing something from the audio. Just thought I would mention it.

I want learn hebrew and work in israel in this future and I promise ı Will learn hebrew

תודה רבה

Dear M.,

Thanks for posting on this lesson!

The word "Everest" is written in Hebrew אוורסט, with one "ס" (sounds like 'S') and one "ט" (sounds like "T").

Could it be that you misread them for the same letter? 😅 It is pronounced "Everest" exactly as the source.

Yours,

Roi

Team HebrewPod101.com

Shalom,

Todah Rabah for this lesson.

Looking at 'Everest' written in Hebrew, it occurs to me there is a Teth too much. Now it seems you should pronounce it: Everetest or Everet'st or something like that. Am I right?

Dear Marion,

Thanks for posting on this lesson!

Unfortunately, I don't understand your question - could you explain a little more on what you mean?

Sincerely,

Roi

Team HebrewPod101.com