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#48 How to Talk ‘Ceasefire’ in Hebrew

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

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

4.9988 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Everyone’s talking about הפסקת אש, ceasefire. Let’s get to know the word הפסקה (break) and other words in its family which come from the root פסק.

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New Words and Expressions:

Hafsakat-esh – Ceasefire – הפסקת אש

Hafsaka – Break, stop, halting – הפסקה

“Maga’im intensiviyim lehafsakat esh, ach ha-esh lo poseket” – There are intensive talks for a ceasefire, but the fire won’t stop – מגעים אינטנסיביים להפסקת אש, אך האש לא פוסקת

Hafsakat esh humanitarit – Humanitarian ceasefire – הפסקת אש הומניטרית

Ha-hafsaka ha-gdola – “The big break” – ההפסקה הגדולה

Hifsakti lenasot – I stopped trying – הפסקתי לנסות

Hifsakti le’ashen lifeni shavua – I stopped smoking a week ago – הפסקתי לעשן לפני שבוע

“Choshev lehasik le’ashen? Eize yofi” – Do you think of stopping smoking? That’s great – חושב להפסיק לעשן? איזה יופי

“Kshe’at noga’at bi, ani mafsik lachshov” – When you touch me I stop thinking – כשאת נוגעת בי, אני מפסיק לחשוב

Lo tafsiki lekavot – You will not stop hoping – לא תפסיקי לקוות

Hufsak – Halted, stopped – הופסק

Ha-sherut hufsak – The service was discontinued – השירות הופסק

Piska – Paragraph – פסקה

Psik – Comma – פסיק

Pisuk – Punctuation – פיסוק

Pisuk raglayim – Spreading the legs – פיסוק רגליים

Pasuk – Biblical verse – פסוק

Pesek zman – Time off / Name of a chocolate snack – פסק זמן

Kach pesek zman – Take some time off – קח פסק זמן

Playlist and Clips:

Roy Tal – Hifsakti Lenasot

Boaz Sharabi -Kshe-at Nogaat Bi (lyrics)

Gali Atari – Ha-shir she-yavi lach Ahava (lyrics)

Arik Einstein – Pesek Zman (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is T.L.B. 1. 1.

0:07.0

Street-wise Hebrew.

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Shalom, it's me Guy from Street-wise Hebrew.

0:12.0

Everybody's talking today about this. It's me Guy from streetwise Hebrew.

0:13.0

Everybody's talking today about this.

0:15.0

I'm just a sall, my vts at all the time

0:18.0

and shach koko of my avakhe

0:19.0

but heh,

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a gahim intensively

0:21.0

of the sakat-ish, heh,

0:22.0

heh, loposek. Tenga imintensivim le have saket.

0:23.4

Maga im intensive im lehafsakat ash.

0:26.5

Maga im intensively have sakat is a hakha ech loposeket

0:31.0

this is taken from the Israeli-Wala news website.

0:33.7

Magareim intensive contacts or talks.

0:37.0

Le Hafsakat-Esh for a ceasefire.

0:40.0

So Hafsakat is stopping, halting, break stopping halting break is fire it's a smihut compound

0:46.7

now so stopping of fire so the afsaka becomes hafsakat ish

0:52.0

have sakat ish humanitt, we keep hearing is a humanitarian

0:55.5

ceasefire, so humanitarian, feminine, this is an adjective describing the Hafsakat-Esh, the

1:01.6

ceasefire.

1:03.0

Then the reporter said this as if you wrote it for our podcast, let's listen again.

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