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🗓️ 6 February 2018
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We don’t talk enough about food on our podcast. The Hebrew word טעים means tasty, and its root, טעמ, makes up a whole family of culinary terms that are important to know.
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New Words and Expressions:
Ta’im lecha, ta’im lach, ta’im lachem – Is it tasty (for you)? – טעים לךָ? טעים לךְ? טעים לכם?
Ta’im she-ein dvarim ka-ele – So delicious that there are no things like it – טעים שאין דברים כאלה
Ta’am, pl. Te’amim – Taste, flavor, sense, reason – טעם, טעמים
Al ta’am ve-al re-ach ein lehitvake’ach – There’s no right or wrong when it comes to taste – על טעם ועל ריח אין להתווכח
Ani yoda’at she-yesh be-ze ta’am – I know there’s sense in it – אני יודעת שיש בזה טעם
Ein ta’am la’asot mashehu – There’s no point to do something – אין טעם לעשות משהו
Kshe-at lo iti, ein ta’am kim’at – When you’re not with me, there’s hardly any point (to life) – כשאת לא איתי, אין טעם כמעט
Ein ta’am she-evke / Ein ta’am livkot) – There’s no point in crying – אין טעם שאבכה / אין טעם לבכות
Ein ta’am – No point – אין טעם
Titkasher elehem achshav! Lo, ein ta’am, hem od lo pat’hu – Call them up now! No, no sense in doing that, they haven’t opened the office yet – תתקשר אליהם עכשיו! לא, אין טעם, הם עוד לא פתחו
Achshav ba-te’amim tapuz… etc. – Now in the flavors of: orange etc. – עכשיו בטעמים: תפוז…
Be-te’amim hadashim – In new flavours – בטעמים חדשים
Be-ta’am – With good taste, elegantly, tastefully – בטעם
Mamash be-taam – (It was done) really with taste – ממש בטעם
Hoser ta’am – Lack of taste – חוסר טעם
Eize hoser ta’am – What a lack of taste – איזה חוסר טעם
Ta’am – Lexical stress – טעם
Mi-ta’am – On behalf of – מִטעם
Pras mi-ta’am emi – Prize from the Israeli Union of Performing Artists – פרס מטעם אמ”י
Omanut mi-ta’am – Propaganda – אמנות מטעם
Ze post mi-ta’am X – That’s a post sponsored by X – זה פוסט מטעם א
Hush ha-ta’am – Taste (sense) – חוש הטעם
Mat’am, mat’amim – Delicacy, delicacies – מטעם, מטעמים
Hu asa mi-ze mat’amim – “He made delicacies out of it” – הוא עשה מזה מטעמים
Hem asu mi-ze mat’amim – “They made delicacies out of it” – הם עשו מזה מטעמים
Lit’om – To taste – לטעום
Efshar lit’om – May I taste? – אפשר לטעום?
Tit’am! Tit’ami! Tit’amu – Taste it (imp.) – תטעם, תטעמי, תטעמו
Ta’am – Taste / He tasted – טעם
Playlist and Clips:
Streetwise Hebrew Episode 122: Waiter Talk… Is Everything OK?
Streetwise Hebrew Episode 151: Like Nothing Else: Intensifiers and Superlatives
Lilit Nagar & Jacques Cohen – Al Ta’am ve-al Re’ach (lyrics)
Dana Berger – Yesh Be-ze Ta’am (lyrics)
Matti Caspi & Yehudit Ravitz – Samba bi-shnayim (lyrics)
Lahakat Hel Ha-yam – Hasake (lyrics)
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0:00.0 | This is T.L.B. 1. |
0:10.0 | Street-wise Hebrew. Shallow, it's me guy with Street-wise Hebrew. Shalo, it's me Guy with Street-wise Hebrew. |
0:15.0 | I feel like we don't talk enough about food on the podcast. |
0:19.0 | I mentioned the word Taim, |
0:21.0 | Tet Ain-Y yud mam, delicious before. The root is tet a nmeam and it's on |
0:29.2 | episode 122 waiter talk when we learn timlecha, Taimlaq, Taimlahem, is it tasty for you? |
0:38.3 | I also talked about it on episode number 151 about superlatives, for example, Taim Shee and Verem Kaele, so delicious that there are no things like it, Ta'eim Shayne |
0:51.1 | Dverimkele. We're going to put links to these episodes in the notes. |
0:55.0 | Ta'am is taste and flavor, it's the noun. Alta me a la Rhaa, the Mala, |
1:03.3 | in the panque, |
1:04.3 | the timma mamharia, |
1:06.3 | the le mau d'erma miska, |
1:08.3 | be shu, |
1:09.7 | echu, echahach about taste and smell, |
1:15.0 | A Litvakéa, there's nothing to argue about. |
1:18.0 | There's no right or wrong when it comes to taste. |
1:21.0 | Ta-am is also sense logical basis. I know there's sense in it's a |
1:35.0 | that's in this is a vah |
1:38.0 | Aniodat she yes bez a taham I know there's sense in it, a point to it. Basically I know I should do it. |
1:46.4 | Aniodad Shayesh Bezé Taam. We usually say the opposite. |
1:51.4 | Aintam La Sotmashu. Ani can live it. Sheat loiti. |
2:05.0 | And I am Kymat. |
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