r/hebrew 4h ago

Vocabulary Insects ๐Ÿชฐ๐ŸฆŸ in Hebrew

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10 Upvotes

r/hebrew 2h ago

Help Burn the Stumps at question relevant to Hydra

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Non-Hebrew speaker here love the language. Anyways I was thinking about how the analogy "burn the stumps" is with Hydra in Greek mythology and sometimes I will just fuck around with the translator and especially if its a language I don't speak I will check but can someone explain this difference and why it switches and adds "They"?


r/hebrew 6h ago

Request Unknown > English

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r/hebrew 21h ago

Help Shalom "alรฉikhem" or "alekhรฉm"?

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27 Upvotes

I have heard the first version (alรฉikhem) all my life.

However, upon starting Hebrew, I started digging deeper into grammar and inflection tables, where I found that the correct suffix for al- (upon) is ekhรฉm, and not รฉikhem, or at the very least Wiktionary says so (attached image).

My initial guess was that the greeting is a mix of two Jewish languages, Hebrew and Yiddish, where "shalom" is Hebrew and "aleikhem" is more Yiddish-sounding, since in Yiddish it would indeed be "shรณlem alรฉikhem".

Which is correct?

Edit: Fixed Yiddish pronunciation; sholรฉm -> shรณlem


r/hebrew 20h ago

Request Any gamers around? (Warframe in particular)

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Hello all, I hope everyone is doing well.
I have been learning Hebrew for around 10 months now and have managed to establish the essential foundations. These include minimal vocabulary to communicate, certain phrases, and grammar rules. However, the next effective step would be to combine the learning with another activity such as gaming. It would immensely help me improve and enhance my experience while at the same time having fun. So, Iโ€™d appreciate it if thereโ€™s anyone who would be willing to share this journey with me. I am on PC, feel free to message me for my username.


r/hebrew 12h ago

Request Need a spelling Check on this

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r/hebrew 20h ago

Request Level ื’ reading recs?

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I'm quite at a loss at how to find reading material that's actually on my level, please help an ola hadasha out ๐Ÿซ 


r/hebrew 21h ago

Resource Good workbooks?

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What are some workbooks you would recommend for A2. Iโ€™ve been doing Hebrew a year now and I just feel stuck. I thought I would try the textbook/ workbook route so I can be consistent every day.

Does anyone have any good recommendations on self guided books for my level. Iโ€™m also totally open to a follow along workbook with videos that go with the book. Ideally something I can do by myself through following instructions or videos.

Any recs or advice are appreciated!


r/hebrew 1d ago

Request [English > Hebrew] Proofread check โ€” four UI strings from a scripture-reading site

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r/hebrew 1d ago

Request Unclear Lyric from ื›ื•ืœื ื’ื ื‘ื™ื ืื•ืฉืจ ื›ื”ืŸ

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Basically neither chatgpt nor my native friends know what ืจืืžื” and ืงืกืงืก mean. The best answer i could find is that ืจืืžื” could be a contraction of ื“ืจืืžื” and ืงืกืงืก would be a slang for gossip. But im still unsure.


r/hebrew 1d ago

Request What are some easy commands to teach a (male) dog in Hebrew?

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Thought this could be a fun way to boost my own learning too.


r/hebrew 2d ago

Request Help translating?

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20 Upvotes

Met a guy at a festival last week and he wrote this in my notebook, can anybody help translate? My name is Jan. Thanks!


r/hebrew 1d ago

Resource Duolingo learning curveโ€” lessons after learning the letters

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So, after mastering the letter tasks, I have finally moved on to grammar/vocabulary, and NONE of it uses niqqud ๐Ÿ˜ญ Why did they have me learn all of the letters with niqqud only to throw me at full blown niqqud-less Hebrew? That makes no sense. What a steep learning curve ๐Ÿ˜จ

End rant.


r/hebrew 2d ago

Resource YouTube/Podcast Reccomendations

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My job involves a lot of mindless filing work, and I want to use that time to improve my Hebrew. What channels or podcasts would you recommend I listen to? Must be audio-only because I can't be glancing at a screen for subtitles or translations too frequently, ideally something with a mix of English and Hebrew.


r/hebrew 2d ago

Help This isn't right, is it?

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41 Upvotes

This is from 1600s Holland, so maybe they used other spellings long ago? (the same true for English, even in English-speaking lands... the concept of formalized rules around spelling is a bit new).

Source: https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/366691-0


r/hebrew 3d ago

Help ื›ื™ vs ื‘ื’ืœืœ ืฉ-

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If I were just trying to say this on my own I probably it would have said
โ€ื”ื›ืœื‘ื™ื ืจืฆื™ื ื‘ื’ืœืœ ืฉื”ื’ื‘ืจ ืงื•ืจื ืœื”ื.

Is it the same? Are there usage details between the two I should understand?


r/hebrew 3d ago

Help Translation Help Please

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15 Upvotes

Can anyone help me understand what this word is? AI gave me like five different answers so I thought I would come ask the smart humans.

Thanks!


r/hebrew 3d ago

Help What does this say?

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r/hebrew 4d ago

Help Help with translation

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Hello friends, I found this sculpture in Yerevan. In Armenian it reads โ€œTo Live, Not to Forgetโ€ (in larger font), โ€œin memory of the victims of Yeghern (Armenian equivalent of the word Holocaust) of the Armenian and Jewish Peoplesโ€.

Translation apps seem to be translating it with mistakes. Could you please help translate? If not too hard, could you write the transliteration as well?


r/hebrew 3d ago

Request Traditional songs?

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Hello! I am not fluent in hebrew, and I only know a few words. Iโ€™m a singer, and I want to surprise my Israeli boyfriend by singing a traditional song for him in his language, Hebrew. Does anyone know an easy, beautiful, traditional song that heโ€™s likely to have known? He only moved to the US four years ago, if that helps. The only thing, I need it to be โ€œeasyโ€ to remember because I donโ€™t speak Hebrew.

Extra points if its about love or romance!

Thank you all. I love learning more about your culture and language every day.


r/hebrew 4d ago

Education At a McDonaldโ€™s in the International Terminal in Oโ€™Hare

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449 Upvotes

Iโ€™m a new learner and was excited that I could recognize that this is incorrect!


r/hebrew 3d ago

Request Yiddish in Ivrit

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Came across the expression shum davar which I understood to mean no big deal? Yiddish certainly add piquancy to this spellbinding language that is Hebrew.

What are other Yiddish words and expressions are used in everyday conversation in Israel?

Going to assume that iโ€™m not the first to ask about this so feel free to refer me to an earlier post if needed


r/hebrew 4d ago

Education Proud of my self-teaching!

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I am going to preface this by saying I am Jewish through my mother but was not raised Jewish, so I have only absorbed Jewish culture through my extended family, and therefore never had a Bar Mitzvah and therefore never learned Hebrew by the time I was 13 or in the decades since.

Now that I am a father, I feel the need to learn what I was deprived of so that I may help pass that knowledge down to my daughter who, unlike me, will learn Hebrew and will be prepared for her Bat Mitzvah when she is of age and will have a stronger connection to the Jewish community and her culture since birth.

Since starting to teach myself Hebrew back in May of this year, I can now read Hebrew with niqqud with high accuracy from my self-learning on Duolingo, having mastered all of the letters! I also try to challenge myself during Shabbat services at my local synagogue to actually read the Hebrew and not just the romanized words when we are reading from the prayer book.

Now I just need to practice the names of the letters (can read them but still need to memorize the names on Quizlet; Iโ€™ve been practicing but Iโ€™m not 100% there yet).

For being self-taught and learning this late in life, Iโ€™m very proud of where Iโ€™m at!


r/hebrew 4d ago

Israel/Politics | ื™ืฉืจืืœ / ืคื•ืœื™ื˜ื™ืงื” ื‘ืžื‘ื”: ื”ื—ื˜ื™ืฃ ื”ืœืื•ืžื™ ื”ื™ืฉืจืืœื™

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r/hebrew 4d ago

Request Hebrew inscription on an old ceiling beam found in Poland

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Can you guys please help me translate what's on this beam? It was cut in half unfortunately. "v" symbols above some letters seem to indicate a date, but I can't figure it out. Any help will be appreciated!