#30 Exploring Hebrew's Mellowest, Sloppiest Corner

Streetwise Hebrew

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

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🗓️ 4 March 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

What’s חפיף, which language did we get it from, and how do you use it in Hebrew slang? Oh, and there’s a verb, too, לחפף.

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New Words and Expressions:

Chafif (Ar.) – Light (opp. Of heavy), easy going – חפיף

Dammo chafif (Ar.) – “His blood is light”, he’s funny, an easy going guy – دمه خفيف – דמו ח’פיף

“K’chu chafif et hachayim” – Take life easy – קחו חפיף את החיים

“Im mashehu kara, hafif ze lo nora” – If something happened, that’s ok, no worries. – אם משהו קרה, חפיף זה לא נורא

Chafifnik – Someone who does a sloppy job – חפיפניק

Chafifnikiyut – The notion of doing things superficially – חפיפניקיות

“Pit’om hitchalta lezayef, lo lehashkia, lechafef” – Suddenly you started slacking, to do a sloppy job – פתאום התחלת לזייף, לא להשקיע, לחפף

Hu mechafef – He blows off – הוא מחפף

Lama chifafta? – Why didn’t you do it well? – למה חיפפת

Mechufaf – Sloppy – מחופף

Playlist and Clips:

Eitan Masuri – Hafif (lyrics)

Julia Boutros – Ala Ma Yabdou

Aviva Avidan – K’chu hafif et ha-hayim

Ofer Shechter – Bitachon Atsmi (lyrics)

Sarit Avitan – Gever-gever (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is T. A T. L. B. One radio.
0:05.0	Great, great mixture.
0:07.0	This is still V one.
0:08.0	This is Tille V one.
0:10.0	This is Tille V. It's a beautiful city. Great, great great.
0:12.0	V&V. Great City, Great Radio, the LV1.
0:14.0	This is TLV 1. Streetwise Hebrew.
0:27.0	Hebrew.
0:28.0	Shallow, me Guy from Street-wise Hebrew.
0:31.0	Ha-Fif, haph, haph, haib, Habif, Haefif, Haqal halaefif, everything is going
0:38.0	hafif.
0:39.0	So it looks like an adverb.
0:40.8	What is this word? In Arabic,
0:43.4	hef is light the opposite of heavy, like here.
0:46.5	I'm a Jew.
0:48.5	Dammo chafif.
0:50.5	Dammo chafif, sang by Julia Butrus. Dammo, like in Hebrew, Damm, blood, damo, his blood. His blood is,
1:00.1	chaffif means his blood is light, which means he is a nice guy. He takes things easily.
1:06.1	In Hebrew we also use the word fife. Ha haphi fief ere, ha a nashim men's a bahbānahin.
1:18.0	Khu khafeif at the haim, take life in a hafeif wake Khu is imperative, plural, take.
1:24.0	Hefif here is an adverb easily, and then the object at Hachaim, live.
1:30.0	So take life easily.
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