#305 "Ve," "Va" or "Oo"

Streetwise Hebrew

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Vé- (and in Hebrew) is sometimes pronounced Va- or Oo-, depending on the usage. So when is the letter ו at the beginning of a word pronounced Vé, Va or Oo? And should Hebrew learners invest their time to learn these elaborate rules?

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New Words and Expressions:

Ve – And – ו (letter vav)

"Al safsal ba-gan yoshevet, u-frachim bi-se'ara" – "She's sitting on a bench, with flowers in her hair" – על ספסל בגן יושבת, ופרחים בשערה

Vav + בומ"פ letters = U

U-fra-chim – And flowers (archaic) – ופרחים

"U-shku'a ba-halomot" – "And submerged in her dreams" – ושקועה בחלומות

"Va-ani tsipor" – "And I am a bird" – ואני ציפור

Masa-u-matan – Negotiations – משא ומתן

Basar va-dam – Flesh and blood – בשר ודם

"Mita va-hetsi" – "A bed and a half" – מיטה וחצי

Hamesh va-hetsi – Half past five – חמש וחצי

Shesh va-reva – Quarter past six o'clock – שש ורבע

Yomam va-laila – Day and night – יומם ולילה

"Esrim ve-arba sheva" – 24-7 – עשרים וארבע שבע

Ze mamash yom va-laila eich she'hu hishtana – It's amazing how this person changed – זה ממש יום ולילה איך שהוא השתנה

Playlist and Clips:

Be'ad o neged – בעד או נגד

Gali Atari – Yesh Lecha Shemesh (lyrics)

Gali Atari – Derech Aruka (lyrics)

Masa u-matan (KAN TV)

Ayala Ingedashet – Basar va-dam (lyrics)

Mita va-hetsi – A bed and a half

Shtayim – Shesh Va-reva (lyrics)

Corinne Alal – Sfat Imi (lyrics)

Kaveret – Ba-yom u-va-laila (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is T.L.B. 1.
0:07.0	Street-wise.
0:11.0	Hebrew.
0:13.0	Shalom, it's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew.
0:16.0	Today I'd like to talk about VE, which means and, A and D, and, it's a letter Vav, and from time to time my Hebrew students want to pronounce it as
0:24.9	oo I'll explain.
0:32.2	As a cell bag on your share Did you hear how singer Gali Attari pronounced the vav here?
0:40.0	Did you hear how singer Gali- Attari pronounced the vav here?
0:44.0	Alice of Sal Bagan Yosevahim Bagan Yosevet
0:50.0	Ufraim Bissara. She's sitting on a bench with flowers in her hair. Now why Ufraim in a
0:55.0	She's sitting on a bench? Ufraim. Y-U-Frahim in fancy Hebrew when there is a Vav Haibul that's what we call it a connecting
1:07.0	valve and when the Vav comes before the letters bet Vav M, mam, pay, you need to pronounce it as u.
1:16.4	Also the following letter will not have the geesh, hence ufrakhim.
1:21.4	Now this is very fancy language which you might hear on old songs back when radio
1:26.8	stations were under heavy regulation of language vigilantes and artists
1:31.2	followed suit we don't talk like that, it's archaic and formal.
1:35.2	In conversation we just say, Vepraim, Vepraim. This is true even on the radio and on TV.
1:42.1	Only in specific formal contacts will people use it,
1:45.8	like in a news bulletin, but probably not in an interview with an artist. It's just way too formal.
1:52.1	Some of our listeners told me that this is the kind of Hebrew they learned when they were kids in the US,
1:58.0	Sababa, but this is not how Israelis speak in 2020.
2:03.6	Let's keep listening. Ushkua bachalomote,
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