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INTRODUCTION
Sherah: Hi everyone, and welcome back to HebrewPod101.com. This is Beginner Season 1 Lesson 16 - Is That Israeli Flight Delayed? Sherah Here.
Amir: שלום I'm Amir.
Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn about passive voice using the verb להידחות. The conversation takes place at the airport.
Amir: The announcement is made over the PA system in the airport.
Sherah: Since this is an official announcement, the speaker will be using formal Hebrew. Okay, let's listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

נוסעים נכבדים- טיסה מס' 463 נדחתה בשעתיים מסיבות טכניות.
זמן היציאה החדש הוא 16: 00 עמכם הסליחה.
Sherah: Listen to the conversation one time slowly.
נוסעים נכבדים- טיסה מס' 463 נדחתה בשעתיים מסיבות טכניות.
זמן היציאה החדש הוא 16: 00 עמכם הסליחה.
Sherah: Listen to the conversation with the English translation
Announcement: Honorable passengers - Flight No. 463 was postponed for two hours due to technical reasons.
The new departure time is 16: 00 Sorry for the inconvenience.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Sherah: Most people are familiar with Israel’s main airport, Ben Gurion.
Amir: It’s where most people fly in and out of Israel, but there are other airports as well.
Sherah: The four that receive the most traffic are the Haifa airport, Sde Dov in Tel Aviv, Eilat Airport and Ovda Airport in the south.
Amir: The two northern airports, Haifa and Sde Dov, were established during the British Mandate.
Sherah: Eilat airport was established in 1949.
Amir: Ovda airport was established much later, in 1980.
Sherah: These other airports mostly cater to national airlines flying between the north and south of the country.
Amir: But there are some seasonal international flights from Europe, Russia and other countries in the Middle East that fly into the southern airports.
Sherah: They’re actually in the process of building another airport in the south near Timna.
Amir: It will be named after Ilan and Assaf Ramon.
Sherah: Ilan was an Israeli astronaut killed in the Columbia disaster and his son, Assaf, was killed in a pilot training accident.
Amir: The new Timna airport will replace the Eilat airport, which is in the city center.
Sherah: That’ll make some space for new hotels and other buildings. Okay, now onto the vocab.
VOCAB LIST
Sherah: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is..
Amir: נוסע [natural native speed]
Sherah: passenger
Amir: נוסע[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: נוסע [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: נכבד [natural native speed]
Sherah: honorable
Amir: נכבד[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: נכבד [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: להידחות [natural native speed]
Sherah: to postpone
Amir: להידחות[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: להידחות [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: טיסה [natural native speed]
Sherah: flight
Amir: טיסה[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: טיסה [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: סיבה [natural native speed]
Sherah: reason
Amir: סיבה[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: סיבה [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: טכני [natural native speed]
Sherah: technical
Amir: טכני[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: טכני [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: יציאה [natural native speed]
Sherah: exit
Amir: יציאה[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: יציאה [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: עמכם הסליחה [natural native speed]
Sherah: sorry for the inconvenience
Amir: עמכם הסליחה[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: עמכם הסליחה [natural native speed]
KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
Sherah: Let's take a closer look at the usage of some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first phrase is..
Amir: נוסעים נכבדים
Sherah: meaning "honorable passengers"
Amir: You’ll often hear this phrase in places like the airport.
Sherah: And bus stations and train stations too for that matter.
Amir: נוסעים means “passengers”, and it’s the masculine plural form of the noun.
Sherah: The second word in the phrase, נכבדים means “honorable” or “respected”.
Amir: These two words together are a formal way of addressing passengers on trains, buses or airplanes.
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this phrase?
Amir: Sure. For example, you could say.. נוסעים נכבדים שלום, הרכבת הינה רכבת ישירה לתל אביב
Sherah: ..which means "Honorable passengers, this train is a direct train to Tel Aviv." The next word is..
Amir: טכני
Sherah: meaning "technical"
Amir: טכני is an adjective.
Sherah: This is a good example of a foreign word that has been incorporated into Hebrew.
Amir: טכני is constructed a little differently than other adjectives. טכני is the masculine singular and טכנית is the feminine singular.
Sherah: The masculine plural form is טכניים.
Amir: And the feminine plural is טכניות.
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. יש בעיה טכנית עם המטוס.
Sherah: ..which means "There’s a technical problem with the plane." Okay, now onto the grammar.

Lesson focus

Sherah: In this lesson, you will learn how to understand an announcement about a delayed flight. In Hebrew, the passive voice is often used in formal language in situations such as P.A. announcements or in the news.
Amir: The sample sentence we want to focus on is טיסה מס' 463 נדחתה בשעתיים מסיבות טכניות.
Sherah: In this sentence, the passive verb להידחות is used to say that the flight was postponed.
Amir: להידחות is part of the nifal verb group and it means “to be postponed”.
Sherah: Not all verbs in the nifal verb group are passive verbs, but verbs that are passive are counterparts of pa’al verbs.
Amir: You will recognize nifal verbs by the ni- in the beginning of the past and present tenses.
Sherah: להידחות is an irregular nifal verb.
Amir: It’s a part of the lamed-heh group of verbs that we learned about in previous lessons.
Sherah: It also has the guttural letter het in the middle, which can change the pronunciation of some of the conjugations.
Amir: In the dialogue, the third person feminine singular form was used, or נדחתה.
Sherah: It agrees with טיסה which is a feminine singular noun.
Amir: In circumstances similar to the sample dialogue, you will hear the third person conjugations used most often.
Sherah: So, let’s go through the third person conjugations, beginning with the masculine singular.
Amir: That would be נדחה.
Sherah: And the feminine singular is -
Amir: נדחתה
Sherah: And, lastly, the third person plural -
Amir: נדחו
Sherah: So let’s look at some example sentences of these three conjugations.
Amir: The first sentence is הטיול נדחה עד שבוע הבאה.
Sherah: This is an example of the masculine singular and it means “the trip is postponed until next week.”
Amir: The second sentence is החתונה שלהם נדחתה בינתיים.
Sherah: This is the feminine singular נדחתה and it means “their wedding was postponed in the meantime.”
Amir: The last example sentence is הטיסות למילן נדחו בגלל מזג האוויר.
Sherah: This is the plural נדחו and it means, “The flights to Milan were postponed because of the weather.”

Outro

Sherah: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye!
Amir: תודה

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