#72 What's Your 'Matsav'?
Streetwise Hebrew
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🗓️ 3 February 2015
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Matsav is a word Israelis use as much as they possibly can. It means situation, state, or condition, but it can be used in lots of different idioms: ma ha-matsav?; yesh matsav; Ha-matsav; matsav cherum etc.
Guy Sharett takes us through the 'matsav' of the matsav family.
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New Words and Expressions:
Matsav, Matsavim – מַצָּב, מַצָּבִים
Ma ha-matsav – מָה הַמַּצָּב
Yesh matsav – ein matsav –יֵשׁ מַצָּב, אֵין מַצָּב
Yesh matsav le – יֵשׁ מַצָּב לְ-
Yesh matsav le-od kisé? – ?יֵשׁ מַצָּב לְעוֹד כִּיסֵא
Yesh matsav le-sukar? – ?יֵשׁ מַצָּב לְסוּכָּר
Uveneinu achshav ein matsav – וּבֵינֵינוּ עַכְשָׁיו אֵין מַצָּב
Ein matsav le – אֵין מַצָּב לְ
Ein matsav le shesh me'ot – אֵין מַצָּב לְ-600
Yesh matsav she… – ...יֵש מַצָּב שֶ
Yesh matsav she-tavi li café? – ?יֵשׁ מַצָּב שֶׁתָּבִיא לִי קָפֶה
Yesh matsav she-ata tavo elay – ?יֵשׁ מַצָּב שֶׁאַתָּה תָּבוֹא אֵלַיי
Matsaviyut – מַצָּבִיוּת
Mi be-matsav le café – מִי בְּמַצָּב לְקָפֶה
Ani be-matsav – אֲנִי בְּמַצָּב
Ani lo be-matsav – אֲנִי לֹא בְּמַצָּב
Ha-matsav – הַמַּצָּב
Daber iti al ha-matsav – דַּבֵּר אִיתִי עַל הַמַּצָּב
Ha-matsav ha-bitchoni – המַצָּב הַבְּטְחוֹנִי
Ha-matsav ha-kalkali – הַמַּצָּב הַכַּלְכָּלִי
Ha-matsav ha-chevrati – הַמַּצָּב הָחֶבְרָתִי
Ha-mtsav kashé – הַמַּצָּב קָשֶׁה
Hu be-matsav kashé – הוּא בְּמַצָּב קָשֶׁה
Ma ze, hamatsav kashé? – ?מַה זֶה, הַמַּצָּב קשה
Matsav tisa – מַצָּב טִיסָה
Matsav cherum – מַצָּב חֵירוּם
Matsav ruach – מַצָּב רוּחַ
Komediat matsavim – קוֹמֵדְיַית מַצָּבִים
Playlist and Clips:
Israeli Educational TV short program about Hebrew slang
Ron Shoval – Dai Maspik (Lyrics)
Ani be-matsav – Efo Ha-yeled (Lyrics)
Shlomo Artzi – Daber Iti Al Ha-matsav (Lyrics)
Shalom Hanoch – Ha-matsav Kashe (Lyrics)
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| 0:52.8 | Today we talk about different expressions with the word Matsav. |
| 0:56.0 | Matsav mam sadik bet means situation, state, condition. |
| 1:00.7 | The root is actually yud sadik bet which means to pose and indeed the situation is |
| 1:06.2 | posed around us in plural it's matsavim mahamatav what is the situation literally, means how are things? |
| 1:15.0 | And you should add it to our list of Makore, what's happening. |
| 1:18.4 | Eh Hoek, how is it going? |
| 1:20.4 | Ma'inyanim, how are the matters, how are things machadash what's new so intonation is mamizav mamizav mamizav |
| 1:29.6 | mamizav makizav makizav Yes, Madzav, there is a |
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