#51 Beauty Kings and Queens
Streetwise Hebrew
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๐๏ธ 9 September 2014
โฑ๏ธ 11 minutes
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Summary
Yaffeย means 'beautiful,'ย but the nounย yofiย โ 'beauty' โ is used in Modern Hebrew to mean 'Great!' You've probably heard your Hebrew teacher saying it when you get an answer right in class.
How do you say 'beauty queen,' for instance?
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New Words and Expressions:
"Ha-ra'ita eize yofi?" โ Did you see this beauty? โ ืืจึธืืืช ืืืื ืืืคื
Yofi โ Beauty โ ืืืคื
Yafรฉ, yafa โ Beautiful โ ืืคื
Eize yofi โ How nice โ ืืืื ืืืคื
Yofi gavri โ Male beauty โ ืืืคื ืืืจื
Yofi nashi โ Female beauty โ ืืืคื ื ืฉื
"At hachi yafa ba'olam, malkat hayofi sheli" โ You're the prettiest in the world, my beauty queen โ ืืช ืืื ืืคื ืืขืืื, ืืืืช ืืืืคื ืฉืื
Malkat hayofi shel Israel โ The Israeli beauty queen โ ืืืืช ืืืืคื ืฉื ืืฉืจืื
Li-shnat 2014 โ For the year of 2014 โ ืืฉื ืช 2014
Hi muamedet mispar 12 mor maran โ โฆis candidate number 12 mor maran โ ืืื ืืืขืืืช ืืกืคืจ 12 ืืืจ ืืืจื
Yofi โ Great! Well done! โ ืืืคื
Eize yoffie li โ How great it is for me โ ืืืื ืืืคื ืื
Yofi lahem! โ Good for them! โ ืืืคื ืืื
Yofi lecha โ Good for you โ ืืืคื ืื
Mamash yofi โ Really great โ ืืืฉ ืืืคื
Yofi shel yerakot โ Great vegetables โ ืืืคื ืฉื ืืจืงืืช
Yofi shel avoda โ Good job! โ ืืืคื ืฉื ืขืืืื
Mechon yoffie โ Beauty salon โ ืืืื ืืืคื
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Playlist and Clips:
Dorit Reuveni โ Yesh Prachimย (lyrics)
Eyal Golan โ Malkat Ha-yofi Sheliย (lyrics)
Nikuy Rosh โ Tacharut Melech Ha-yofi
Julie Andrews โ Wouldn't it be loverlyย
Rita โ Yoffie Li (From Gvirti Ha-nava, My Fair Lady)ย (lyrics)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is T.L.B. 1. |
| 0:05.0 | Street-wise Hebrew. |
| 0:10.0 | Shalo. It's me Guy from Street-wise Hebrew. Today we're going to talk about the word Yofi. Heharaita Heseufi, |
| 0:25.0 | Hehifi, |
| 0:28.0 | Heharae dehruh, |
| 0:30.0 | Hehita Heseiofi, did you see this beauty? Yofi means beauty, it's the noun of Yefe, the adjective, |
| 0:40.0 | Yefa, feminine. Aiseyofiy means literally what a beauty, but we use it for how nice, how pretty, how great. |
| 0:48.2 | We can talk about Yofy Gavri, male beauty, Yofy Neshi, female beauty, |
| 0:53.7 | beauty, or about beauty queens? officially. |
| 1:03.0 | At the ha ha, baa olem, Malkah, |
| 1:05.0 | hai officially, E Al Golan. |
| 1:07.0 | You're the prettiest in the world. |
| 1:09.0 | At a hai-yafah, by al-al-alam. |
| 1:11.0 | Malkah officially, my beauty queen. |
| 1:13.8 | So Malkah is a queen. |
| 1:15.6 | It becomes Malkat haiofi, queen of beauty. |
| 1:19.9 | In Smichut, compound noun, the hay at the end becomes tough. So, |
| 1:24.4 | Malkah, Malkat, Hayofi. I remind you that when you add hay, the, to Smichut, compound noun, it goes to the second word so Beeth has a school the house of book |
| 1:36.2 | Malkat ha yofi the beauty queen and this is part of the Israeli ethos. |
| 1:43.0 | But kata official Israel, the Shnat al-Pimabaisi, |
| 1:48.0 | he who ammed it me spar, |
| 1:50.0 | I'm sorry, |
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