#147 What a life!

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🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today Guy talks about word eizé, "what a," a word we frequently use in various contexts. How do we use it, and what happens when we add it to mashehu, "something," or mishehu, "someone"?

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Words and expressions discussed:

Eizé yom – What a day – איזה יום

Eizo mis'ada (Slang: Eize mis'ada, sssé mis'ada) – What a restaurant! – איזו מסעדה (סלנג: איזה מסעדה)

Eizé basa (Sssé basa) – What a bummer – איזה באסה

Eizé ben adam – What a person – איזה בן אדם

Eizé fashla – What a mess-up – איזה פשלה

Eizé hagzamot! – Such exaggeration! – !איזה הגזמות

Eizé hisachfut! – That’s so over-the-top! – !איזה היסחפות

Eizé keta/kta’im – How funny/What a surprise – איזה קטע/קטעים

Eizé keif lishmo’a – So happy to hear (the news) – איזה כיף לשמוע

Eizé yofi– How great – איזה יופי

Eizé nefila – What a flop – איזה נפילה

Eizé fisfus – What a bummer – איזה פספוס

Wow, eizé rishmiyut – Wow, such formality – וואו, איזה רשמיות

Eizé yofi – How great – איזה יופי

Eizé hultsa lilbosh, zot o zot? – Which shirt should I wear, this one or that one? – איזה חולצה ללבוש, זאת או זאת?

Dibarti im ha-rofe. Eizé rofe? – I spoke to the doctor. Which doctor? – דיברתי עם הרופא. איזה רופא?

Be-eizé yom (slang: Eizé yom)? – On which day? – באיזה יום/איזה יום

Chikiti eizé sha’a – I waited for like an hour – חיכיתי איזה שעה

Tamlitz li al eizé sefer – Could you recommend a book (any book) for me? – תמליץ לי על איזה ספר

Haya sham eizé mishehu – There was some guy there – היה שם איזה מישהו

Ata rotse lishtot? Tavi eizé mashu – Do you want to drink anything? Ok, get me something – אתה רוצה לשתות? תביא איזה משהו

Music:
Dalia Amihud – Eize Ben Adam (lyrics)
Dudu Tassa – Eize Yom (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is TELB1.
0:10.0	St.C. St. Wise Hebrew.
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0:38.0	Today I'd like to talk about the word Aise. What A something? A word we use a lot and in different structures it's a life you'd
0:47.9	zine hey and the main usage and we talked about it a few times, is Eze plus noun, like here. So it's just like saying in English what a blast what a cool place what a bummer or what a day like here ase yom so in Hebrew we use aza for what a
1:20.2	ase is masculine azo with a valve at the end A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A for feminine. But in colloquial Hebrew, we often use A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A you'll be hearing us saying stuff like Eze mise d'A what a restaurant
1:34.6	although we're supposed to say Ezeo miseada it just sounds way too fancy to
1:40.6	correct for the spoken language the meaning meaning of Aisemycadah could vary according to the
1:46.2	intonation and the stress in the sentence. So Esema sadah, wow, wow, that's positive. What a restaurant, it could be great food or you just enter
1:57.3	and that decor is amazing. It's a misadah. But, is a misise de sounds negative. What a horrible restaurant. We've been waiting for hours here.
2:09.0	You'll be also hearing ssema sada, so the Aisee becomes
2:15.0	some kind of Sé, so semi-Sada, and that's negative.
2:21.0	You might remember that we talked about the word basa from Easebasa, what a bummer. So you'll be also hearing
2:29.0	Sébasa. So the se here is ease that became se for simplifying things. So se basaam, a benadam,
2:47.0	a zebenadam, a benadam, that's negative.
2:50.0	You can also say, and said and spoken negative.
2:53.0	You can also say
2:55.0	semashu meaning aiseo.
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