#36 Why, what happened?

Streetwise Hebrew

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

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🗓️ 14 April 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Lama ma kara can be literally translated as “why what happened”. What do we mean by this expression and how do you use it?

Words and expressions discussed:

Ze koré - זֶה קוֹרֶה

Ma koré - מה קוֹרֶה

Lo nora, koré - לֹא נוֹרָא, קוֹרֶה

Hakol yachol likrot - הַכֹּל יָכוֹל לִקְרוֹת

Lama ma kara, milchama? - למה מָה קָרָה, מִלְחָמָה?

Lo yoda’at ma koré li - לֹא יוֹדַעַת מָה קוֹרֶה לִי

Ma kara lecha - מָה קָרָה לְךָ?

Music: Ze kore – Arik Lavi
Sha’alti ma kara – Shlomo Artzi
Ha-kol yachol likrot - Ninet Tayeb
Lama ma kara - Moshe Cohen
Mashup: Rani Rahav, lama ma kara - Noy Alooshe
Kshe’ani itcha ani kmo dag - Sarit Hadad & Teapacks

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0:31.0	Before we start, I'll remind you that you can see all the words and expressions I'm talking
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0:43.0	Zecore.
0:45.0	Shehadeh meh michivet
0:50.0	Zecore, It's happening.
0:55.0	Kore is present tense masculine. The root is kuf, Resh, he, and this is the root we'll talk about today.
1:02.0	Note that there are other words that sound the same,
1:05.0	but with different spelling.
1:07.0	We're not talking about them right now.
1:09.0	Ma Kure is what's happening, and we use it all the time.
1:13.2	Manishma, makore, basically how are things, literally what's happening.
1:18.0	We also use Koree to cheer up a kid who spilled some juice on the floor.
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