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INTRODUCTION
Sherah: Hi everyone, and welcome back to HebrewPod101.com. This is Intermediate Season 1 Lesson 21 - Going on an Errand in Israel. Sherah here.
Amir: שלום I'm Amir.
Sherah: In this lesson, you'll learn about requesting something from someone using a two verb structure. The conversation takes place at the nursery.
Amir: It's between Yoni and Ella.
Sherah: The speakers are co-workers, so they’ll use informal Hebrew. Okay, let's listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

יוני: יש משהו דחוף שאני צריך שאת תעשי.
אלה: בסדר. מה זה בדיוק?
יוני: אני רוצה שתלכי לחנות כדי לקנות עוד נייר טואלט למשתלה.
אלה: נגמר לנו? זה היה יכול להיות אסון.
יוני: נכון. אני לא יכול לצאת כרגע, אז אני צריך שתלכי במקומי.
אלה: איפה יש חנות באזור?
יוני: יש חנות ברחוב הדרור. אם את יוצאת מפה, את צריכה לפנות ימינה. זה רחוב הדרור.
אלה: זה קרוב לפינה?
יוני: זה מאה מטר מהפינה. כשאת לוקחת את נייר הטואלט, תגידי לאיתן שזה בשבילי.
אלה: הוא מכיר אותך?
יוני: כן, ואם הוא לא שם אז אפשר להגיד להם שאני לקוח מספר חמישים ושמונה.
אלה: בסדר.
Sherah: Listen to the conversation with the English translation.
Yoni: There is something urgent I need you to do.
Ella: Ok. What is it exactly?
Yoni: I want you to go to the store in order to buy more toilet paper for the nursery.
Ella: We're out? That could be a disaster.
Yoni: That's right. I can't go out at the moment, so I need you to go for me.
Ella: Where is there a store in the area?
Yoni: There’s a store on Sparrow Street. If you go out from here, you need to turn right. That's Sparrow street.
Ella: Is it close to the corner?
Yoni: It's one hundred meters from the corner. After you take the toilet paper, tell Eitan that it's for me.
Ella: He knows you?
Yoni: Yes, and if he's not there you can tell them I'm customer number fifty-eight.
Ella: OK.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Sherah: Ella is running errands this time around.
Amir: I think we’re all asked to do that at work when we first start out.
Sherah: I think so, too! One thing I noticed in this conversation is the street name.
Amir: Oh, you mean Sparrow Street?
Sherah: Yes. It’s such an usual name. Where I come from, streets are named by numbers or names of people.
Amir: Right, and in Germany streets are often named by the city the road leads to.
Sherah: So, is Sparrow Street a typical name in Israel?
Amir: Yeah, it is. Most streets in Israel are named after famous people, things found in nature, or historical events.
Sherah: Are the types of names mixed? Would you find a street named after a bird next to a street named after a famous person?
Amir: Usually streets in an area are all named along the same theme.
Sherah: What are the most common street names?
Amir: King George, after King George V, and Ben-Gurion, after Israel’s first prime minister.
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: דחוף [natural native speed]
Sherah: urgent
Amir: דחוף[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: דחוף [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: בדיוק [natural native speed]
Sherah: exactly
Amir: בדיוק[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: בדיוק [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: חנות [natural native speed]
Sherah: shop
Amir: חנות[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: חנות [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: נייר טואלט [natural native speed]
Sherah: toilet paper
Amir: נייר טואלט[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: נייר טואלט [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: להיגמר [natural native speed]
Sherah: to be finished
Amir: להיגמר[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: להיגמר [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: אסון [natural native speed]
Sherah: disaster
Amir: אסון[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: אסון [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have
Amir: דרור [natural native speed]
Sherah: sparrow
Amir: דרור[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: דרור [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have
Amir: קרוב [natural native speed]
Sherah: near
Amir: קרוב[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: קרוב [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: פינה [natural native speed]
Sherah: corner
Amir: פינה[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: פינה [natural native speed]
Sherah: And last..
Amir: לקוח [natural native speed]
Sherah: client, customers
Amir: לקוח[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: לקוח [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: נייר טואלט
Sherah: meaning "toilet paper." What can you tell us about this?
Amir: This noun is a construct state.
Sherah: What does that mean?
Amir: The second noun functions as a specification of the first - it tells what type of paper it is.
Sherah: Okay, that makes sense.
Amir: When adding the prefix -ה, or "the", to smikhut constructs, it is only added to the second word, נייר הטואלט
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. לנייר הטואלט הזה יש שלוש שכבות.
Sherah: ..which means "This toilet paper has three layers." Okay, what's the next word?
Amir: להיגמר
Sherah: meaning "to be finished." What can you tell us about this?
Amir: The root letters are Gimel Mem Resh - ג.מ.ר, and the verb stem is Nif'al.
Sherah: Is it a passive or active verb?
Amir: This verb is passive, so we can use להיגמר to say that things have been ended, not that we’ve ended them.
Sherah: What is the active verb for “to finish”?
Amir: It’s the Pa'al stem לגמור
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. לא רציתי שהטיול ייגמר.
Sherah: .. which means "I didn’t want the trip to be over."
Sherah: Okay, what's the next word?
Amir: אסון
Sherah: meaning "disaster." What can you tell us about this?
Amir: Like the English word “disaster,” we can use אסון for a terrible and great incident, but also something that isn’t as serious.
Sherah: So we can use it for things that failed badly or had bad consequences.
Amir: Exactly.
Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. אסון התאומים התרחש באחד עשר בספטמבר.
Sherah: .. which means "The World Trade Center disaster occurred on September eleventh."
Sherah: Okay, now onto the lesson focus.

Lesson focus

Sherah: In this lesson, you'll learn about requesting something from someone using a two verb structure.
Sherah: First, let’s explain exactly what we mean here.
Amir: In the dialogue we had the sentence אני רוצה שתלכי לחנות
Sherah: “I want you to go to the store.”
Amir: The first word, אני, means “I.” The second word, רוצה means “want.”
Sherah: Of course, it’s conjugated to fit the pronoun.
Amir: The next word is the verb תלכי, meaning “you will go,” and it’s conjugated to fit the person being asked.
Sherah: How are these verbs conjugated?
Amir: The first verb should be in present tense, and the second in future tense.
Sherah: As we’re making requests of people, the first verb will usually be things such as “want,” “need,” and “ask.”
Amir: Yes, and the second verb is conjugated in the second tense future form, and also to fit the person being asked.
Sherah: Next, let’s look at another prefix in Hebrew. I believe this one is pretty important...
Amir: That’s right. I want to introduce ש. It has no exact match in English, but is kinda similar to “that” or “which.”
Sherah: Both of those are relative pronouns and can be used to add a dependent clause to a main clause.
Amir: That’s how ש functions in Hebrew. However, in English you can sometimes leave “that” or “which” out of a sentence and it’ll be fine. You can’t leave ש out of a sentence in Hebrew.
Sherah: Where does it fit in the sentence ?
Amir: It will go after the first verb, but it doesn’t have to be attached to the second one - it just precedes whatever you are asking the other person to do.
Sherah: Can we have an example?
Amir: יש משהו דחוף שאני צריך שאת תעשי.
Sherah: “There is something urgent that I need you to do.”
Amir: Yes, here the ש precedes the pronoun in the latter half of the sentence.
Sherah: To wrap up, let’s look at another example.
Amir: אני צריכה שתעשה קניות בשבילי.
Sherah: “I need you to go shopping for me.”

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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