#168 You're Digging My Ear off!

Streetwise Hebrew

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Israel, Tlv1, Religion & Spirituality, Language Learning, Education, Language, Judaism, Hebrew, Streetwise

4.9 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

One of your friends or colleagues is talking your ear off - blabbering, nagging, or over analyzing. In Hebrew, you would kindly ask that person to stop being a 'hafran,' or literally, 'digger.' Guy explains how and when to use this illustrative slang.

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Words and expressions discussed:

Hofer – Digging, excavating – חופר

Lahpor (lahfor) – To dig – לחפור

Lahfor bor – To dig a hole – לחפור בור

Orly lo mafsika lahfor li – Orly does not stop "lahfor" in my ear – אורלי לא מפסיקה לחפור לי

Tagidu la, giveret, at hoferet, kol ha-zman medaberet – Tell her, lady, you're "hoferet", you're speaking all the time – תגידו לה, גברת, את חופרת

Ma ata hofer? – Why are you "hofer"? – ?מה אתה חופר

Dai lahfor – enough digging – די לחפור

Dai lahfor li – Stop digging in my ear – די לחפור לי

Hafarti? – Did I talk too much? – ?חפרתי

Hafira, hafirot – Excavation, digging – חפירה, חפירות

Hafira archi'ologit – Archaeological excavation – חפירה ארכיאולוגית

Hafran, hafranit – A blabber – חפרן, חפרנית

Hafrawi – Hafran – חפראווי

Hafarperet – Mole, double agent – חפרפרת

Music:

E-Z – Kolboinikit (lyrics)
Shai Yom Tov – At Hoferet
Archaeology in Jerusalem
Yeled hafran (kid's monologue)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is T.L.B. 1.
0:10.0	Street-wise.
0:11.0	Hebrew. Shalom, it's me Guy with Street-wise Hebrew.
0:16.0	First of all, thanks so much dear patrons, we appreciate your help.
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0:24.0	F. M. slash SWH.
0:27.0	Listener Edward Grinberg asked me to talk about La Jofo,
0:31.0	Jofe.
0:32.0	Jofe is digging, excavating, the infinitive is Lachpo, but often we say Lach
0:39.7	so Lach foar bow to dig a hole.
0:43.0	Formal language is Lach po'
0:45.0	but that's too pompous, so we say Lach fo'
0:49.0	we are in the infinitive of binian pa'al,
0:51.0	so just like Lachshov to think, Lech Somme to block,
0:56.0	Lech for, to dig. Orly a girl's name, a girl's name, Lohh, Lohhfoyi,
1:05.0	O'erli, a girl's name,
1:10.0	Loh Mopsica Lachefor, Lee, does not stop Lachfor, to dig, Lee, to me, meaning she talks all the time.
1:20.0	So Lachfau is to talk too much, to ask questions, to not leave a moment of silence.
1:26.0	It could also be to overanalyze.
1:29.0	Lachfo plus Li to me means you're talking too much and forcing me to listen to all this. So I'm here, that's Gheveret. A confereret,
1:44.0	chol a's man made a beret. And at the moment we're a And at the moment we know that a gopher it, call us man made a beret. In Dijla Giverret, at Togilah,
1:55.0	Giverret, atrophyret, call us man me the beret.
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