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INTRODUCTION
Sherah: Hi everyone, and welcome back to HebrewPod101.com. This is Intermediate Season 1 Lesson 14 - Planning a Surprise in Israel. Sherah here.
Amir: שלום I'm Amir.
Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn about paal verbs. The conversation takes place on the phone.
Amir: It's between Daniel and Mrs. Alon.
Sherah: The speakers are friends, so they’ll use informal Hebrew. Okay, let's listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

דניאל: את בטוחה שהיא לא יודעת מה קורה?
גברת אלון: אין סיכוי שהיא יודעת.
דניאל: את יכולה להזכיר לי מה התפקיד שלי בכל העסק הזה?
גברת אלון: בסדר. אתה תיקח אותה מהעבודה שלה בחמש. תגיד לה שאתה רוצה לקחת אותה לאכול משהו.
דניאל: עד לפה הבנתי. ואז ניסע לדירה שלה.
גברת אלון: כן, אני אכין את הדירה עם החברים של אלה.
דניאל: רגע, איזו סיבה אתן לה לזה שנצטרך לעבור דרך הדירה שלה?
גברת אלון: תגיד לה שהיא צריכה ללבוש משהו יפה יותר מאשר הבגדים שלה מהעבודה.
דניאל: בסדר. אמרת שאני צריך גם להכין נאום?
גברת אלון: זה יהיה נחמד אם אתה תנאם בזמן הארוחה.
דניאל: על מה הנאום צריך להיות?
גברת אלון: אתה החבר הכי טוב שלה, תדבר על הסיבות שבזכותן אתם חברים.
Sherah: Listen to the conversation with the English translation.
Daniel: Are you sure she doesn't know what's going on?
Mrs. Alon: There's not a chance she knows.
Daniel: Can you remind me what my role is in all of this?
Mrs. Alon: Ok. You’ll take her from her work at five. Tell her that you want to take her to eat somewhere.
Daniel: Up to there I understood. And then we'll go to her apartment.
Mrs. Alon: Yes, I’ll prepare the apartment with Ella's friends.
Daniel: Wait, what reason will I give her for why we need to pass by her apartment?
Mrs. Alon: Tell her that she needs to wear something nicer than her work clothes.
Daniel: Okay. You said I need to also prepare a speech?
Mrs. Alon: It would be nice if you gave a speech during dinner.
Daniel: What should the speech be about?
Mrs. Alon: You're her best friend, talk about the reasons why you two are friends.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Sherah: Ohhh, it sounds like they’re planning a surprise party for Ella.
Amir: I think so! It must be her birthday.
Sherah: What’s the typical birthday party in Israel like?
Amir: They’re not much different from the rest of the world! Israelis like celebrating outside, as the weather is usually good.
Sherah: Is that also true for children’s birthday parties?
Amir: Yes. They’re often held in parks or gardens with various family members present.
Sherah: What kind of food is popular?
Amir: Like parties anywhere else in the world, birthday parties are about junk food! Bamba and Bisli are usually served, and there will be a grill with kebabs and chicken.
Sherah: It might be junk food, but it sounds delicious.
Amir: It’s traditional to have the birthday boy or girl sit on a chair that is raised in the air by those in attendance. They go up once for every past birthday, and one for the next year.
Sherah: And of course, there are a couple of important birthdays for young boys and girls...
Amir: That’s right. The Bar-Mitza for boys at age 13, and Bat-Mitza for girls at age 12 are very important coming of age birthdays for Jews.
Sherah: Okay, now onto the vocab.
VOCAB LIST
Sherah: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is..
Amir: עסק [natural native speed]
Sherah: business
Amir: עסק[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: עסק [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: להצטרך [natural native speed]
Sherah: to need
Amir: להצטרך[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: להצטרך [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: נאום [natural native speed]
Sherah: speech
Amir: נאום[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: נאום [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: להכין [natural native speed]
Sherah: to prepare
Amir: להכין[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: להכין [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: נחמד [natural native speed]
Sherah: nice
Amir: נחמד[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: נחמד [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: לנאום [natural native speed]
Sherah: to make a speech
Amir: לנאום[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: לנאום [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: בזמן [natural native speed]
Sherah: during, while
Amir: בזמן[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: בזמן [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: בטוח [natural native speed]
Sherah: sure
Amir: בטוח[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: בטוח [natural native speed]
Sherah: And last..
Amir: סיכוי [natural native speed]
Sherah: chance
Amir: סיכוי[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: סיכוי [natural native speed]
KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
Sherah: Let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is..
Amir: עסק
Sherah: meaning "business." What can you tell us about this?
Amir: עסק can mean “business” in both the sense of “a business” or “enterprise” and also as “matter” or “affair.”
Sherah: So you can use it to say “It’s not your business.”
Amir: Which is זה לא העסק שלך in Hebrew.
Sherah: Does it have any other uses?
Amir: It can also be used colloquially to mean “deal” and the plural, עסקים, means several business transactions.
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. שמעתי שהוא הסתבך בעסקים מפוקפקים.
Sherah: ..which means "I heard he got into some shady business." Okay, what's the next word?
Amir: להצטרך
Sherah: meaning "to need"
Sherah: What can you tell us about this?
Amir: The root letters of this verb are צ.ר.כ, and the verb stem is Hitpa'el.
Sherah: How is it used?
Amir: This verb always needs a subject.
Sherah: Yes, there has to be something “to need.”
Amir: Right. It can be an object, a person or an action. This verb is only used in the future tense.
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. אני אצטרך כלב קטן, חליפת צלילה וזיקוק.
Sherah: .. which means "I’m going to need a small dog, a wetsuit, and a firecracker." Okay, what's the next word?
Amir: בזמן
Sherah: meaning "during." What can you tell us about this?
Amir: It consists of the preposition ב, meaning "in," and the noun זמן, meaning "time."
Sherah: So it literally means “in time of.”
Amir: Yes. The proper pronunciation is bi-zman but this isn’t really used in everyday speech.
Sherah: How is it used?
Amir: It can be used between a verb and a noun, or between two verbs.
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. הלכתי להכין סנדוויץ' בזמן הפרסומות.
Sherah: .. which means "I went to make a sandwich during the commercials." Okay, now onto the lesson focus.

Lesson focus

Sherah: In this lesson, you'll learn about some irregular verbs. Let’s briefly go over these verbs first.
Amir: Pa’al verbs are the most common and simple verbs in Hebrew, but we found some irregular ones in this lesson.
Sherah: Some Hebrew verb roots are known as “weak roots,” because they have letters that disappear in some conjunctions.
Amir: One such root is Nun. In the Pa’al verb stem, weak roots lose Nun in all future forms and sometimes in the imperative.
Sherah: Shall we look at an example?
Amir: In the dialogue we had the sentence רגע, איזו סיבה אתן לה לזה שנצטרך לעבור דרך הדירה שלה?
Sherah: “Wait, what reason will I give her for why we need to pass by her apartment?”
Amir: In that sentence it’s “to give.” It’s there as the future tense, first person singular form אתן. The first Nun disappeared and assimilated into the second root letter ת.
Sherah: So when it became “I will give”, it lost this letter.
Amir: Yes. The Tav was “doubled” - it should now have a Dagesh inside it, which stands for the lost Nun.
Sherah: In the lesson notes there’s a table that shows all of the future tense conjugations of “to give” so you can see how it changes depending on who is speaking.
Amir: Right. The first person plural form is נִתֵּן, and this does still have the Nun at the start. This is this form’s set prefix and it’s always there.
Sherah: We said earlier that sometimes the imperative form is missing this first letter too. Is that the case with “to give”?
Amir: Yes, it is! Well remembered! The imperative form is !תן. It’s also missing in the infinitive form לתת.
Sherah: Are there other examples of this with other verbs?
Amir: Yes. Another example from the dialogue is the verb “to drive.” This uses the root Nun Samekh Ayin
Sherah: Does the first letter drop and assimilate again?
Amir: Yes, it assimilates into Samekh in future forms. The imperative is also lacking the Nun and is !סע
Sherah: How about the infinitive form?
Amir: That’s different as it’s still there - לנסוע
Sherah: Let’s finish with some examples.
Amir: אני אקח שלושה תפוזים, בבקשה.
Sherah: “I’ll take three oranges, please.”
Amir: הוא יסע לירושלים ברכבת.
Sherah: “He’ll go to Jerusalem by train.”

Outro

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

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