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Streetwise Hebrew

#77 Election Finger-Pointing (Rerun)

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

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

4.9988 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

There's lots of talk about looming elections, so today we’ll talk about voting in Hebrew. Guy also explains how it’s connected to the word for finger - אצבע.

Hear the All-Hebrew Episode on Patreon

New Words and Expressions:

Lehatsbi’a – To vote – להצביע

Etsba, etsba’ot – Finger, fingers – אצבע, אצבעות

Lehatsbi’a al mashehu – To point at something – להצביע

“Ein lachem adayin zchut hatsba’a” – You still don’t have the right to vote – אין לכם עדיין זכות הצבעה

“Aval yesh lachem zchut hashpa’a” – But you do have the right to influence – אבל יש לכם זכות השפעה

Hatsbaa le-mishehu – Voting for someone – הצבעה למישהו

Le-mi / avoor mi ata matsbi’a – Whom do you vote for? – למי / עבור מי אתה מצביע

Hatsba’a ba bchirot – Vote in the elections – הצבעה בבחירות

Hatsba’a al hahachlata – Vote on a decision – הצבעה על ההחלטה

Lehatsbi’a al mashehu – Pointing at something – להצביע על משהו

“Ani rotse lehatsbi’a al ha-gormim ha-hashuvim” – I want to highlight the key factors – אני רוצה להצביע על הגורמים החשובים

Hatsbaa chashait – Secret ballot – הצבעה חשאית

Neged – Against – נגד

Be’ad – For – בעד

Aval be-hatsba’ah – You need to raise your hand first – אבל בהצבעה

Matsbi’a – Voter (m.) / He is voting – מצביע

Matsbi’ah – Voter (f.) / She is voting – מצביעה

Sovev oto al ha-etsba haktana shelo – He has him wrapped around his little finger – סובב אותו על האצבע הקטנה שלו

Be eser etsbaot – On his own, without getting any help – בעשר אצבעות

Notnim lo etsba, hu rotse et kol hayad – You give him a finger, he wants the whole hand (Give someone an inch and they’ll take a mile) – נותנים לו אצבע, הוא רוצה את כל היד

Itsboo’a – Fingering (music) – איצבוע

Etsba’on – Thimble – אצבעון

Playlist and Clips:

Uzi Hitman – Eser Etsbaot (lyrics)

Ruti Navon – Bein Ha-etsba’ot (lyrics)

Yinon Magal

Ep. No. 304 about neged HEB

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shalom, it's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew.

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This week we are replaying an episode from our archive.

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Patrons will find the brand new All Hebrew sister episode

0:10.0

written and recorded this week on Patreon.com

0:14.5

streetwise Hebrew or in your podcast app through the private

0:18.7

podcast feed. As you may already know, we started creating the All Hebrew episodes starting with episode

0:25.5

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.

0:35.2

Enjoy.

0:36.2

This is TLV1. One. Street-wise Hebrew. Today is Street-wise Hebrew.

0:48.0

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

0:52.0

Today is election day in Israel,

0:53.7

so we're going to talk about Lehat's Bia to vote.

0:56.9

But before that, I want to share with you a message I got

0:59.2

from Judy Rubin from New York,

1:01.2

who replied to my question on how you guys use the podcast and Judy says that, first of all, she copies the whole list of new words in Hebrew from our website.

1:11.0

Then she listens to every episode a few times. She says it takes me an

1:16.3

hour to do one episode and I plan on doing two a week. Judy also chooses one song

1:21.6

from each episode and tries to learn it

1:24.1

well done kolokavot judi i'm impressed

1:27.0

do you guys also want to tell me what you do with the podcast do you sip champagne

1:31.2

with it do you work on your macrammy?

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