#432 Surprise!

Streetwise Hebrew

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The Hebrew word הפתעה means "surprise." Don't be surprised if by the end of this episode you'll know several uses of הפתעה to impress your Israeli friends. Oh, and everybody knows what a ביצת הפתעה is, right?

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New Words and Expressions:

Hafta'ah – Surprise – הפתעה

Mesibat hafta'ah – Surprise party – מסיבת הפתעה

Yesh li haftaah bishvilcha/bishvilech – I have a surprise for you – יש לי הפתעה בשבילך

Hafta'at ha-me'ah – The surprise of the century – הפתעת המאה

Ha-hafta'ah shel ha-shana – The surprise of the year – ההפתעה של השנה

Beitsat hafta'ah, Beitsat Kinder – Kinder's surprise, Kinder egg – ביצת הפתעה, ביצת קינדר

Yesh haftaot bahayim – There are surprises in life – יש הפתעות בחיים

Lehafti'ah mishehu im prahim/shokolad – To surprise someone with flowers, chocolate – להפתיע מישהו עם פרחים/שוקולד

Ze mafti'a she- – It's surprising that – זה מפתיע ש

"Maftiah kama she-ze taim" – It's surprising how tasty it is – מפתיע כמה שזה טעים

Mafti'a, Mafti'ah – Surprising – מפתיע, מפתיעה

Be-mafti'a – Surprisingly, by surprise – במפתיע

Hu ba be-maftia – He came by surprise – הוא בא במפתיע

Kshe-geshem ba be-maftiah – When rain comes surprisingly – כשגשם בא במפתיע

Ze ba li be-haftaah – It came to me as a surprise – זה בא לי בהפתעה

Ze ma-ze ba li be-haftaah – I really didn't see it coming – זה מה-זה בא לי בהפתעה

Mufta-muftaat-muftaim-muftaot – Surprised – מופתע, מופתעת, מופתעים, מופתעות

Huftati lishmoa she- – I was surprised to hear that – הופתעתי לשמוע ש

Tufta, tufte'i, tufte'oo – You'd be surprised – תופתע, תופתעי, תופתעו

Ulai tufte'oo lishmo'a – You might be surprised to hear – אולי תופתעו לשמוע

Le-hafta'ati ha-raba – To my big surprise – להפתעתי הרבה

Playlist and Clips:

Beitsat hafta'ah

Dana Berger – 2007 (lyrics)

Tnuva commercial

Matti Caspi & Ha-parvarim – Be-lev Kaved (lyrics)

Pirsomet: Gam atem tufte'oo

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is TLV-1.
0:10.5	Shalom, it's me Guy who is Streetwise Hebrew.
0:15.5	Today I'd like to talk about Haftanaa, surprise.
0:18.7	But before we do that, did you know that you can join our patreon community for free
0:23.4	most of our posts are for subscribed patrons but not all i post publicly about interesting things
0:30.5	and you can learn a thing or two from them you can also text back and forth with me there
0:35.7	again just by joining at the free tier.
0:39.1	So go to patreon.com slash streetwise Hebrew to join me there.
0:43.9	And now on to today's episode.
0:46.5	Let's talk about hafta'a, surprise, hafta'a, hey, pay, tafe, ain't hey.
0:52.1	A surprise party is mesibat, haftata a ftta a is the verbal noun of the
0:58.5	if i feel verb format like hasmana or hachnasa yes i have a surprise for you just like in english
1:07.2	yesi aftah bishuilich, feminine.
1:13.2	Havtah in Smychut is haftaat,
1:14.3	like Hvtahe.
1:16.1	The surprise of the century.
1:18.4	Mega surprise.
1:20.0	You can also say
1:20.9	the haftaire of
1:22.2	the shana or
1:23.0	haftaat the shana.
1:25.7	What is beitat Haptaa?
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