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The Basics of Hebrew
Most of us have heard Ziva speak in Hebrew. An incredibly fast sounding language, with lots of achs and iks. Luckily, it's not as hard as it sounds. Once you learn the aleph bet (alphabet) and nikud (vowel pointings,) learning it will be a breeze!
The Aleph Bet
The Hebrew aleph bet, is a phonetic which consists of 22 basic letters. 5 letters have sofit versions which means they change form when placed at the end of a word. Unlike English, Hebrew is read right to left instead of left to right. The aleph bet does not have vowels, with the exception of one letter (vav) which makes an oo or u sound. As a replacement for vowels, they use nikud (otherwise known as pointings or vowel points.) Which make a sound directly under the consonant that they are placed under/over/in.
In modern Hebrew, vowel points are not used. Meaning you often have to guess the vowel sound that comes after each letter. As your vocabulary increases, the guessing won't be so hard. It's recommended that you learn the vowel points anyway, because it will make reading and writing Hebrew a lot easier.
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Two/Introduction/introduction.html
Basic Vocabulary
Greetings / Conversation
Good Morning:
בוקר טוב
Boker Tov
Evening:
ערב טוב
Erev Tov
Good night:
לילה טוב
Layla Tov
How are you?
?מה שלמך
Ma Shlomekh? (f)
Ma Shlomkha? (mO
Fine, and you?
מצוין וות?
Metsuyan ve'at?
My name's...
...שמי
Shmi...
Ziva-isms
As per hoorooblue's request, here are some translations for the following Ziva-isms/phrases. Feel free to use them whilst around other Hebrew speaking members of the community.
התקפה וטקטיקה בסגנון מוסד על מְכוֹנַות צִלּוּם
"Mossad-style assault tactics on photocopiers"
האם דב יושב ביער
"Does a bear sit in the woods?"
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The Aleph Bet
The Hebrew aleph bet, is a phonetic which consists of 22 basic letters. 5 letters have sofit versions which means they change form when placed at the end of a word. Unlike English, Hebrew is read right to left instead of left to right. The aleph bet does not have vowels, with the exception of one letter (vav) which makes an oo or u sound. As a replacement for vowels, they use nikud (otherwise known as pointings or vowel points.) Which make a sound directly under the consonant that they are placed under/over/in.
In modern Hebrew, vowel points are not used. Meaning you often have to guess the vowel sound that comes after each letter. As your vocabulary increases, the guessing won't be so hard. It's recommended that you learn the vowel points anyway, because it will make reading and writing Hebrew a lot easier.
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Two/Introduction/introduction.html
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Basic Vocabulary
| Word (English) | Transliteration | Word (Hebrew) |
| Hello / Good-bye | Shalom | שלוצ |
| Good-bye | Lehitra'ot | להתראות |
| Please | Bevakasha | בבקשה |
| Thank-you | Toda | תודה |
| Excuse Me | Slikha | סליחה |
| Yes | Ken | כ ן |
| No | Lo | לא |
| A lot of | Hamon | המונ |
| Many | Harbe | הרבה |
| How many? | Kama? | ?כמה |
| I | Ani | אני |
| Good | Tov | טוב |
| Morning | Boker | בוקר |
| Night | Layla | לילה |
| God | Elohim | אלוהים |
| Man | Ish | איש |
| Woman | Isha | אישה |
| Again | Shuv | שוב |
| Dead | Met | מת |
Greetings / Conversation
Good Morning:
בוקר טוב
Boker Tov
Evening:
ערב טוב
Erev Tov
Good night:
לילה טוב
Layla Tov
How are you?
?מה שלמך
Ma Shlomekh? (f)
Ma Shlomkha? (mO
Fine, and you?
מצוין וות?
Metsuyan ve'at?
My name's...
...שמי
Shmi...
Ziva-isms
As per hoorooblue's request, here are some translations for the following Ziva-isms/phrases. Feel free to use them whilst around other Hebrew speaking members of the community.
התקפה וטקטיקה בסגנון מוסד על מְכוֹנַות צִלּוּם
"Mossad-style assault tactics on photocopiers"
האם דב יושב ביער
"Does a bear sit in the woods?"
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| hoorooblue | Welcome to the Ziva David School of Hebrew | 15 | Oct 16 2009, 6:44 AM EDT by mmeeeeeelllllll | ||
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Great work Reigne on setting up the page! Could you give us the translation for "Mossad-style assault tactics on photocopiers" and "does a bear sit in the woods?". With these two code-phrases, we will be able to identify Israeli fans of NCIS immediately because, instead of looking puzzled, their eyes will light with recognition.
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| howdy25 | awesome! | 0 | Feb 25 2009, 9:44 PM EST by howdy25 | ||
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this page is soooooo cool! good job!
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