Lesson 34 - Finding a Home for Luli

Luli’s story gives us the perfect opportunity to continue exploring these verbs and learn some words and phrases important to all pet owners.  (Do you know how to say “housebroken” in Hebrew?)

Finally, we will learn why this lesson is a very special one in the history of Learn Hebrew Pod.  And, of course, we’ll want to make sure that Luli’s story has a happy ending.

Learn Hebrew Pod - Lesson No. 34

Jonathan: Eyze sipur yafe. What a nice story! Let's read it once more while I give the English translation…and BTW, shalom studentim yekarim. Bruchim habaim leshiur mispar shloshim ve-arba alef, thirthy four A. which is actually Learn Hebrew Pod shiur mispar, lesson number…

(Luli is barking three times)

Liat: Nachon Luli! Counting the A, B and C lessons, we had ninty nine lesasons so far,  tishim ve-tish-a shiurim ad hayom…so today is shiur mispar me-a!

Eran: Lesson number one hundred!

מאה

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Eran: Your Online Multimedia Hebrew Learning Center

Liat: Which provides you wi…(Luli's barking)….Tov, tov, OKAY!... Luli wants her story in Hebrew and in English. And she wants it now

Jonathan: Okay. Luli, nizzacht, you won. Here's your story in Hebrew and in English…

לולי עם המשפחה החדשה שלה
Luli with her new family

Jonathan: two of the verbs in our conversation are not in the Paal building block. Eran, would you indicate these for us?

Eran: kamuvan Yonatan, mistadrim is in the hitpael building block, nimzza is in the nifal building block  

Liat: All of the other verbs in our conversation are in the Paal. As you remember Jonathan, the Paal building block comprises about tish-im achuz, ninety percent of the Hebrew verbs.

Eran: BUT,as we very well know, conjugations in the paal building block can be different between one root to another

Liat: That of course depends if  the root consist of only 'natural consonants' or use 'special consonants' as well, such as the famous guttural letters

Jonathan: Nachon meod. Verbs which include guttural letters in their root might get different conjugations in different tenses of the Paal. Today we will review the past present and future conjugations of verbs in which the third root letter is one of the guttural letters: hey, alef or ayin.  Let's read the list of verbs again, sorting them out into different categories: