Learn 10 sad words
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| Hello, everybody! Welcome to Hebrew Top Words. I am Idit and today, we’re going to talk about 10 sad words. Mmm, let’s begin! |
| 1. |
| מודאג |
| (mud'ag) “upset” |
| האיש מודאג, שכן נותרה לו עבודה רבה. |
| (Ha-ish mud'ag, sheken notra lo avoda raba.) “The man is upset as he has a lot of work remaining.” |
| Yeah, that’s upsetting. |
| 2. |
| להכאיב |
| (lehakhiv) “to hurt” |
| אנשים טובים משתדלים שלא להכאיב לאחרים |
| (anashim tovim mishtadlim shelo lehakhyiv leacherim) “Good people try not to hurt others.” |
| You know, you should always be considerate towards other people and try to put yourselves in their shoes because we’re human beings. |
| 3. |
| בודד |
| (boded) “lonely” |
| האישה בודדה. |
| (Ha-isha bodeda.) “The woman is lonely.” |
| I don’t know. This sentence kind of reminds me of when I was studying English when I was, like, nine. So my teacher taught me through Beatles songs and then she taught me Eleanor Rigby for some reason, and I started crying in the middle of the lesson. I wasn’t like ugly crying, but I was like weeping because the song is so sad, and it’s about lonely people and I don’t know, it hit me right in the feels. Yeah, I was a sensitive kid. |
| 4. |
| עצוב |
| (atzuv) “sad” |
| זה עצוב להיות לבד בשבת. |
| (Zeh atzuv li-hiyot levad be-shabat.) “It's sad to be alone on Saturdays.” |
| I think, especially like for Jewish people and like in Israel, maybe. If you’re alone on a Saturday and Saturday, it’s like Shabbat, and some people do a Kiddush and stuff like that, and then when you’re alone, it could be sadder, but for me, I don’t think it’s sadder than any other day. It kind of depends on the context. |
| 5. |
| קודר |
| (koder) “gloomy” |
| מזג האוויר היום נראה קודר |
| (mezeg heavir hayom nira koder) “The weather seems gloomy today.” |
| I have a British friend and when the weather is bad, she always says “Oh that’s grim.” So |
| קודר |
| (koder) can also mean “grim”. “Oh that’s grim.” |
| 6. |
| לבכות |
| (livkot) “to cry” |
| הוא בוכה כל הזמן. |
| (hu bokhe kol ha-zman.) “He cries all the time.” |
| You know, how some babies are like that, oh my gosh. |
| 7. |
| מיואש |
| (meyo'ash) “discouraged” |
| שום דבר לא הולך לי היום! אני מיואש |
| (shum davar lo holekh li hayom! ani meyoash) “Nothing works for me today! I'm discouraged.” |
| So yeah, the word |
| מיואש |
| (meyo'ash) can be “discouraged”, but it can also be something a little bit more dramatic, like “despair” or something like that. But day-to-day conversations, usually it’s just like discouraged and not total despair. |
| 8. |
| מאוכזב |
| (me'ukhzav) “disappointed” |
| אני מאוכזב, קיבלתי ציון גרוע במבחן |
| (ani meukhzav, kibalti tsiun garua bamivchan) “I'm disappointed. I got a bad grade in the exam.” |
| 9. |
| מדוכדך |
| (medukhdakh) “unhappy” |
| אחרי שאני צופה בסרט עצוב אני מרגיש מדוכדך |
| (acharey sheani tsofe beseret atsuv, ani margisg medukhdakh) “After I watch a sad film, I feel unhappy.” |
| So the word |
| מדוכדך |
| (medukhdakh) is not only “unhappy”, but it can also be something that’s more like gloomy or grim. It doesn’t have to have a reason like you’re just feeling gloomy, you’re just feeling a little bit melancholic. |
| 10. |
| חרד |
| (chared) “anxious” |
| תוצאות הבחינה מגיעות מחר, ואני מאוד חרד לגביהן. |
| (Tots'ot hab'khina magi'ot makhar ve'ani meod khared legabey'hen.) “The exam results are coming out tomorrow, and I'm really anxious about it.” |
| Okay, that’s it for today for Hebrew Top Words. Today, we did 10 sad words. Please tell me down below if there are any more sad words that you like to know and, yeah, you know, comment this video, like it up, subscribe to our channel, and also don’t forget to check out HebrewPod101.com for more content, more videos and more Hebrew, and I’ll see you all next time. Bye! Shalom! |
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