#18 Zazim

Streetwise Hebrew

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🗓️ 10 December 2013

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In Hebrew, זזים (we're making a move), זזנו (we made a move), and נזוז (we'll make a move) are all used in the same way to say, "yalla, let's go." Guy explains.

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New Words and Expressions:

"Yalla, ani ole la'otobus" – I am getting on the bus – יאללה, אני עולה לאוטובוס

"Ata taale laotobus, ata od lo ole" – You will get on the bus, you're not getting on it yet – אתה תעלה לאוטובוס, אתה עוד לא עולה

Zazim – Let's go – זזים

Nazuz? – Shall we make a move? – נזוז

Kvar ba'im – We're coming in a sec. – כבר באים

Zaznu? – We're out of here – ?זזנו

Hayinu po? – "We were here" (let's go) – ?היינו פה

Halachnu? Holchim? – Let's go – ?הלכנו? הולכים

Ahavti – I liked, I like – אהבתי

"20 shniyot hayitem sham" – "20 seconds and you were there" – עשרים שניות הייתם שם

"Az ani potech et hadelet vema ani ro'e?" – So I open the door and what do I see? – אז אני פותח את הדלת ומה אני רואה

Ani rats – I run / I am running / I am making a move – אני רץ

Playlist and Clips:

Kaveret – Shir Ha-makolet (lyrics)

Dudu Tassa – Ani Rats (lyrics)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We'll be one, great-t-be-wong TV, great radio. Streetwise Hebrew.
0:27.0	Hebrew.
0:28.0	Shahlom, it's my guy from Streetwise Hebrew.
0:31.6	I was sitting on a bench talking to a friend after a meeting
0:34.4	when I saw my bus coming. So I told him in Hebrew, Yala, Aniola Autobus, I'm getting on the bus.
0:40.3	A 60 year old man who was sitting next to us on the bench looked at me and said
0:45.1	At a Talele-O-Bos, at A-Lole, you will get on the bus, you're not getting on it
0:51.8	yet, its future. But it's near future, it's
0:55.1	futu posh. We use present as future sometimes. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
1:00.2	no, he said, you're wrong. At which point I said, sorry, Gaderran, I'm not missing this bus, I will not miss it.
1:07.0	But it made me think, and it was also kind of nice, and so Israeli, how this guy felt he could correct my Hebrew and
1:14.1	intervene. Anyway I am right of course at least in colloquial Hebrew we say
1:19.4	Zazim we're moving meaning we're making a move and the meaning is an action which will start in a
1:26.2	sec will be making a move soon. Nasu's future we will move literally is also an option but could also mean shall we make a move
1:35.6	Nasuz as opposed to we're out of here if you listen to my podcast episode about the
1:41.5	word kval already you'll see that we use the present
1:45.3	plus Kval to show that this is almost really really almost a complete action and it's
1:51.2	going to happen imminently. Remember Kvalbaim, we are already coming, literally, but it means we are coming in a sec a song by Koveret.
2:03.4	If you don't remember this, go back to the Kvall episode.
2:07.0	So it does happen quite often, isn't it, Guy on the Bench?
2:11.7	Sometimes we even use past past which means near future. Zasnu means we made a move but
2:18.6	we are saying yala let's go so we want to show that this action is so complete that we can even use the past as if it has already happened.
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