Modern Hebrew Study Group

[Luís]

TIL words such as בעלי (my husband) and אשתי (my wife) aren't used much anymore and people prefer the more neutral בן/בת זוג (at least when it comes to secular Israelis)

[Antea]

I didn’t know they didn’t use it anymore. For me, באל is easier to remember, because it also exists in Arabic بعل, although it is also not very much used nowadays.

[Luís]

I guess it's because בעל also means "master, owner"...

[Luís]

משהו is pronounced /ˈmaʃu/ and מישהו is pronounced /ˈmiʃu/ in colloquial speech

[eskandar]

TIL words such as בעלי (my husband) and אשתי (my wife) aren't used much anymore and people prefer the more neutral בן/בת זוג (at least when it comes to secular Israelis)

Maybe in certain circles (more narrow than just all secular Israelis). In my experience the use of בן/בת זוג is more limited and tends to conform to where people would use "partner" in English.

משהו is pronounced /ˈmaʃu/ and מישהו is pronounced /ˈmiʃu/ in colloquial speech

Yes, part of the broader phenomenon where [h] tends to disappear in speech.

[Luís]

משהו is pronounced /ˈmaʃu/ and מישהו is pronounced /ˈmiʃu/ in colloquial speech

Yes, part of the broader phenomenon where [h] tends to disappear in speech.

Yes, but that would leave us with /'maʃeu/, which I think is also a common pronunciation. What surprised me here was the loss of the /e/ as well

[Luís]

I'm about to start Chapter 6

Apparently Hebrew has different words to talk about the in-laws:

חם (father-in-law - in relation to the bride)
חמות (mother-in-law - in relation to the bride)
חותן (father-in-law - in relation to the groom)
חותנת (mother-in-law - in relation to the groom)

However, Colloquial Hebrew only mentions חותן/חותנת as general words for father-in-law/mother-in-law. So, I wonder if Israelis actually still make these distinctions...

[vijayjohn]

I finally finished reviewing Chapter 4 and correcting my exercises from that chapter. I'll finally get to move to chapter 5 next.

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Exercise 6

חדשׁים
ישׁנה
גדֺולֺות
קטנים
חמֺות
קרה
רכים
קשׁה
מתוּקֺות
מרה
חזקה
יפה
טעימֺות
טריים

Exercise 7 (Well, how was I supposed to know ארץ is feminine if they never tell you that?! I mean, okay, to be fair, 'a small journalist' does sound odd. But hey, maybe it makes sense in Hebrew! I didn't know! Okay, rant over )

1 ענבים טעימים
2 עגבנייֺות רכֺות
3 פרֺופסֺור יפה גדֺול
4 ארץ גדֺול קטנה
5 עיתֺונאית קטנה יפה
6 חברים טֺובים
7 אסקימֺו קר

Exercise 8

קפה חזק, סנדוויצ׳ים טעימים, דג טרי, משׂרדים קרים, ביצה קשׁה, בירה מרה

I don't think these are wrong, but their suggested answers differ from mine in the sense that they instead wrote: סנדוויצ׳ים קטנים; דג טעים; משׂרדים חדשׁים...בירה קרה

Exercise 9

תפוּחים טעימים
לילה קר
הבית החדשׁ
האֺוטֺובוּסים הישׁנים
הפטריֺות גדֺולולוֺת

Exercise 10

1 ירקוקוֺת
2 לבנה
3 אֺוהב
4 עֺוךף
5 אין
6 ישׁ
7 רך
8 קשׁה
9 טוּנה
10 ישׁ
11 את

Exercise 11 (kind of a dumb exercise, but oh well)

.אני רוצה עוף בפטריות וגליד ווניל, בבקשה

The answer key skipped this exercise altogether.

Exercise 12 - they already answered the question in the audio recording lol plus it's kind of obvious from the start anyway...I mean, she gets to eat all this food whereas all he gets one damn bowl of yogurt...

[Luís]

So, who's still studying Hebrew?

נו, מי פּה שעדיין לומד עברית?