#71 Fine-Tune Your Hebrew With “Be’Etsem” (Rerun)

Streetwise Hebrew

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

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Be’etsem, which means ‘actually,’ is comprised of preposition ‘be’ -בְּ plus the word etsem, which is an ‘object,’ ‘essence,’ or ‘gist’… but also a ‘bone.’ What? Guy Sharett explains all.

And what is, be’etsem, the difference between small talk and networking?

Hear the All-Hebrew Episode on Patreon

New Words and Expressions:

Be’etsem – Actually – בעצם

Etsem (Pl. atsamim) – Object, gist, bone – עצם

Zehu etsem ha’inyan – This is the gist – זהו עצם העניין

“Ve-himshichu lichyot be-osher va-osher ad etsem hayom ha-ze – And they lived happily ever after till this very day – והמשיכו לחיות באושר ועושר עד עצם היום הזה

Abam, etsem bilti mezuheh – UFO – עצם בלי מזוהה, עב”מ

Abamim – UFOs – עב”מים

Shem etsem, shmot etsem – Noun, nouns – שם עצם, שמות עצם

Atsmi – Myself – עצמי

Chaim mi-shel atsmi – A life of my own – חיים משל עצמי

Sherut atsmi – self service – שירות עצמי

“Ein be’etsem zman” – Actually, there’s no time – אין בעצם זמן

“Shikarti kshe-amarti shehakol kol kach nifla, ki shum davar be’etsem lo haya nachon” – I lied when I said everything was so wonderful, because actually nothing was true – שיקרתי כשאמרתי שהכל כל כך נפלא כי שום דבר בעצם לא היה נכון

Playlist and Clips:

Kaveret – Po Kavor Ha-kelev (lyrics)

Ha-nasich ve-ha-nesicha

TV2 – UFOs in Israel

Ben Artsi – Hayim Mi-shel Atsmi (lyrics)

Jirafot – Ein Be’etsem Zman (lyrics)

Mashina – Az Lama Li Politika Achshav (lyrics)

Ma ze be’etsem networking?

Ep. no. 61 about acronyms

Ep. no. 419 about unidentified

Transcript

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0:00.0	Shalom, it's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew.
0:03.0	This week we are replaying an episode from our archive.
0:06.0	Patrons will find the brand new All Hebrew sister episode
0:10.0	written and recorded this week on Patreon.com
0:14.5	slash streetwise Hebrew or in your podcast app
0:17.7	through the private podcast feed.
0:19.9	As you may already know, we started creating the All Hebrew episodes starting with episode
0:25.6	number 181.
0:28.2	So once in a while we go back into the archives and create the Hebrew versions for previous episode like this week.
0:35.0	Enjoy.
0:36.0	This is TLV1. Streetwise Hebrew.
0:48.0	Hebrew.
0:49.0	Shalom, it's me Guy from Streetwise Hebrew, but it's not Guy, it's Lior, the technical producer of the show.
0:58.0	Okay, thank you, Leor.
1:01.0	Shalom, it's me Guy from Streetwise Hebrew. Andy Barr from Seattle wrote me a really nice email.
1:08.0	Hi Andy, and said I should talk about Beetsim actually.
1:12.0	Today Andy, this is what we're going to do today.
1:15.0	If you use your smartphone, press the TL-1 logo to see a list of the words and idioms I'm talking about,
1:20.0	or look for an info button.
1:22.0	Same list is on TLv1.
1:23.6	FM slash streetwise Hebrew on today's show. Beetsem, which can mean actually, is
1:29.7	preposition bea in plus the word ezim so before we talk about the ezem let's talk about ezem
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