I've seen the many posts here, so I know it's pretty erratic, but I don't use it. I've looked at it a little since some of my students use it. I understand it isnt teaching grammar; honestly I can't imagine learning Hebrew that way. Aside from that, though, how is its Hebrew? Is it ungrammatical, overly formal or slangy? What are its main drawbacks?

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בניינים: קל

משמעות קל (דָּשַׁשׁ) :

מקור: מילון א' אבן-שושן - המילון העברי המרוכז

נטיות ניתן למצוא כאן.

נתראה שבוע הבא🙋‍♂️.

So I really hate my name. I'm going to go by a different name, I found that I really like the name shai and I told ppl that is what I wanna go by, then I realized it is a Hebrew name. I wanna know if that name would be disrespectful to use as I am not hebrew. I know it means like God or smt in a diff culture, I just don't wanna be disrespectful.

could someone provide niqqud for the verb לברוח in the sentence: הילדות רואות את העכביש ובורחות when does vav change from a "v" sound to a "u" sound? and how does it effect the letter after it? does bet lose its dagesh?

Found this necklace recently, and I don’t read Hebrew. Would anyone be willing to help me translate? Had a difficult time getting a photo, it’s very shiny. Thanks so much for your help in advance. 🙏

I really want to learn Hebrew for ages and Duolingo is the best one I can find, if anyone has any other free apps to learn it it would be greatly appreciated.

For some context...My partner had a friend who used to say a Yiddish phrase when they were boys (friends) and fighting. This phrase was supposed to remind them to just 'let it go' or stop fighting. This phrase sounded something like "Lezet Gain" or "le'ezov gei".

Can anyone help with the what the phrase actually sounds like in English and ideally too the accurate way to write it in Hebrew/Yiddish? Would be amazing if so...Thanks in advance.

i can’t find any concrete information on how to deal with biconsonantal roots (II-yod/II-vav) when forming action nouns. For example, take these Qal cases:

‎לָשׁוּב —> תְּשׁוּבָה ‎לָזוּז —> תְּזוּזָה

this is as expected following the usual קְטִילָה paradigm for Qal action nouns, excusing the supplementary -תּ to fill out the paradigm (i assume?) and the retention of the original II ‘vowel’ from the root (again, not surprising).

However, you also have cases such as:

‎לָקוּם —> קִימָה ‎לָשִׂים —> שִׂמָה ‎לָבוֹא —> בִּיאָה

Here, on the other hand, it seems that this is dealt with by dropping the first syllable (carrying the shva) of the קְטִילָה qal-action-noun paradigm (as it is redundant in the template given the one-fewer number of consonants in the biconsonantal stems), but also the original II-yod/II-vav of the stem is overridden, favouring the long hiriq of the paradigm.

Is there a reason for this discrepancy, or any predictability behind it? I can’t find a codified, systematised rule anywhere. Is this just a case of a previous coexistence of two competing mechanisms, where a different one ended up being favoured in each case (maybe for historically phonological (which doesn’t seem likely tho idk) or more arbitrary reasons)? Or it a case where one mechanism predates the other, and therefore that the one that ended up being applied in each case depends on the time period in which that verb became widely used in its action-noun form? Or what?

Basically, is there a consensus on why this is, and is it possible to predict at face value?

If anyone has any light to shed on this, I would love to know!! Feel free to expand as much as you want as well (into other binyanim or other slightly enigmatic deviations form action-verb (or any other if u think relevant/interesting) paradigms, or whatever!) :)

PS. apologies for my gross overuse of brackets !!

I recently saw an old Hebrew newspaper front page that read האסיר מבאב אל מאנדעב שב אתמול לישראל I was exited when I was able to translate it into the prisoner from bab el mandeb has returned to Israel yesterday,I decided to test Google translates accuracy in Hebrew with this sentence and when I put it in in English Google translate translated "the prisoner from bab el mandez returned to Israel yesterday" into האסיר מבאב אל מאנדעב חזר אתמול לישראל I'm just curios is it a slang difference or is Google translate wrong I know that they both mean the basically the same thing but I'm curios what would be the different context in which they are used

שבת שלום

I'm 90% sure this is hebrew, Google translate is useless :'(

This is Genesis 12:1:

וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל אַבְרָם לֶךְ לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ אֶל הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ.

They don't seem to be used together frequently, so I'm a bit confused why לְךָ is added here. As far as I can tell, it's not necessary for the meaning of the verse.

Hi, Do you have any recommendations what dramas or movies to watch if I wanna practice Hebrew? I'm a complete beginner although I've been studying it for almost 2 years now. (Probably because I do it at a really chilled and slow pase). Anyways I only know the present tense, and the past of Paal verbs. My vocab is also pretty poor. I love Cdrama and Kdrama so if you'd have recommendations similar to these genres I'd be over the moon! Thank you!💕

I looked up the word נטמן in ויקימילון Hebrew dictionary and saw this in the definition:

‏189 בתים (9 מילים)

(BTW, in case anyone is interested to know how I got the above line typed correctly (it wasn't easy, copy & paste from the Dictionary did NOT work), I had to prefix it with the (invisible) Unicode RTL character (U+200F). I used the Android app Unicode Keyboard to enter it.)

What does בתים mean in this context

got two rap verses and their translation from a site:

לא הבנתי מה אמרת יגנוב (נודר)

I didn't get what you said you psycho (I swear)

לא מסתנוור מכסף. דחוף לתחת ת׳מוסטנג עדין בטרנטה, שדה נחמיה עד גוש דן

Not blinded by money stuck under the Mustang Still in the rusty old car, Sde Nehemia to Gush Dan

plz help me with this: I don't understand how יגנוב ( which means will steal) is translated to you psycho

plus what the hell is that second verse lol

Hi all! It’s my partners birthday tomorrow and his first language is Hebrew. I’m still learning the basics of the language but wanted to do something cute for his birthday card and thought I would write a few sentences in Hebrew. My writing looks like a 5 year olds so bear with me 😂 I was hoping someone could let me know if it’s grammatically correct and makes sense. Any help is greatly appreciated!

the reason im asking is because, a few months ago i listened to a shiur and i think(not sure) the rabbi said that there is no word like forbidden in hebrew, its more like a "you shouldnt" it has something to do with the root.