Funny... I probably never came over this word before because I've rarely (maybe never?) got in the situation when it's being used. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, meet the Hebrew word for hangover: חֲמַרְמוֹרֶת.

There are two interesting things associated with this word:

Let's take look of a simple dialog: visitors from America arrives to their relatives' house in Israel. This conversation is full of little words you might hear all around you among Israelis:

Lesson 4 :Hebrew pronouns

The agenda of the previous three lessons was to introduce you to the Hebrew language. You only repeated phrases from the list. Now to actually start using those phrases we need pronouns, so we can build phrases like “you need” or “we want”.

It might sound a bit trivial for some of you who already know this material and consider it trivial. Nevertheless, some more practice never hurts.

Numbers in Hebrew. Part 3. Hundreds, thousands, and more.

Some of you had probably heard the name "Me'a She`arim". Know the meaning? Bingo, "Hundred Gates". מֵאָה [ me'a ] means hundred. (In spoken Hebrew it's also pronounced as [ me'a ], with the stress on the first syllable.)

It started like kind of funny exercise, when I asked myself, how many ways you have in modern Hebrew to say "hello". Then I recognized it might be a good idea to write a short lesson in this way. (Another interesting question may be, how many ways there are to reply.)

So, let's talk about greetings in Hebrew. Typically, it's one of the first things somebody wants to learn, when trying to approach a new language.