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Streetwise Hebrew

#35 Why? What Happened? (Rerun)

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

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

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Hebrew phrase, למה מה קרה, can be literally translated as, “why, what happened.” What do we mean by this expression and how do you use it?

 

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New Words and Expressions:

Ze koreh – It’s happening – זה קורה

Ma koreh? – How are you? – מה קורה

Lo nora, koreh – That’s ok, these things happen – לא נורא, קורה

“Sha’alti ma kara” – I asked “what happened?” – שאלתי מה קרה

Ha-kol yachol likrot – Everything can happen – הכל יכול לקרות

Infinitives of roots that end with hei in Pa’al: Likrot, liknot, lir’ot, laasot – לקרות, לקנות, לראות, לעשות

“Lama ma kara”- Who do you think you are? Who does he think he is? – למה מה קרה

“Lama ma kara, milchama?” – Is there a war outside, that allowed you to behave like this? – מה קרה, מלחמה

“Lo yoda’at ma koreh li” – I don’t know what’s happening to me – לא יודעת מה קורה לי

Ma kara lach – What happened to you / are you out of your mind – מה קרה לך

 

Playlist and Clips:

Arik Lavi – Ze koreh (lyrics)

Shlomo Artzi – Sha’alti Ma Kara (lyrics)

Ninet Tayeb – Ha-kol Yachol Likrot (lyrics)

Moshe Cohen – Lama Ma Kara (lyrics)

Noy Alooshe Remix

Teapacks & Sarit Hadad – Kshe-ani Itcha Ani Kmo Dag (lyrics)

Shotei Ha-nevu’ah – Az Ma Kara Lach (lyrics)

 

Ep. no. 54 about how are you

Transcript

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Shalom. It's me, Guy, with Streetwise Hebrew. This week we are replaying an episode from our archive.

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Patrons will find the brand new All-Hebrewsister episode written and recorded this week on patreon.com

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slash Streetwise Hebrew or in your podcast app through the private podcast feed.

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As you may already know, we started creating the all-Hebrew episodes, starting with episode number

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181.

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So once in a while, we go back into the archives and create the Hebrew versions for previous

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episode like this week.

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Enjoy.

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This is TLV-1. Music episode like this week enjoy this this is t lb one

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street wise hebrew shalom it's me guy from streetwise hebrew before we start I'll remind you that you can see all the words and expressions I'm talking about today,

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plus links to all the songs and the lyrics on TLV1.fm slash Streetwise Hebrew on today's episode. that the road mitymetsheet

1:12.6

It's happening

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Koru is present tense masculine

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The root is Kuf, Resh,

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hey, and this is the root we'll talk about today.

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Note that there are other words

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that sound the same, but with different spelling.

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We're not talking about them right now.

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Ma Kore is what's happening, and we use it all the time.

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What nishma?

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Basically, how are things literally what's happening?

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We also use Kore to cheer up, a kid who spilled some juice on the floor. L'nora, Kore.

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