Hebrew/Basic/Review 1

Welcome to the first basic review! We now review all that we have learned in Unit One.

Dialogue

So, we have learned quite a lot in the past five lessons! The quantity of vocabulary and grammar points may have been overwhelming, and therefore we shall now take a step back and retrace what we have learned here.

The following dialogue between Dan דָּן and Noa נוֹעָה sums the expressions we learned:

Vocabulary

We have learned:

• Greetings: שלום, להתראות, היי, ביי, תודה, etc.
• Feminine numbers: אחת, שתיים, שלוש, עשרים ושבע, מאה, etc.
• The personal pronouns: אני, אתה, אנחנו, הן, etc.
• The interrogative pronouns: מה, למה, מי, איפה, מתי, etc.
• Some modes of transport: מכונית, אוטובוס, מטוס, אונייה, רכבת.

In addition, we learned some verbs:

• Verbs with two consonants: גר, שר, בא, חי, etc.
• Verbs with three consonants: כתב, הלך, אהב, פתח, ראה, etc.

As well as some expressions:

• Asking for name, welfare, age, residence, destination (איך קוראים לך, מה נשמע, בן כמה אתה, איפה אתה גר, לאן אתה נוסע, etc.).
• Stating yours (קוראים לי, אני בן, אני גר ב, אני נוסע ל, etc.).

Grammar

• We have learned that Hebrew has two genders, and that these can be identified by the following rule of thumb: if the word ends with ה or ת, it is feminine, and if anything else, it is masculine. We also learned of the existence of exceptions.
• We have learned the prefixes attached to Hebrew words: the definite article, the conjunction "and", the prepositions "to, from, in", and the combination of the prepositions "to" and "in" with the definite article.
• You can pluralize a noun or an adjective by adding ים for masculine and ות for feminine, though we did not elaborate. Again, there are exceptions.
• Verb conjugation in binyan qal in the present tense for verbs with 2 and 3 radicals.
• Syntax: questions.

Exercises

• Translate the dialogue.

• Transform the following sentences from the masculine into the feminine form.

• Answer the following questions in Hebrew according to the dialogue.

• Complete the sentences. Pay attention to gender and number.

• Determine whether the following sentences are correct or incorrect grammatically.

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