From the course: Hebrew for Absolute Beginners

Introducing yourself

From the course: Hebrew for Absolute Beginners

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Introducing yourself

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אבסולוט בגינר, סייזן 1, לסן 2. אינטרודוסינג יורסלף אין-היברו. אין-לס לסן, יו וולרן אהטו אינטרודוס יורסלף אין-היברו. היכונרסשן טייקס פלייס אטה פארטי. איץ ביטווין טו פיפול הו אבנבר מט ביפור. אולאו דס אין-אינפורמל כונרסשן, דסאין כונרסשן קודבי יוזד אין-אה פורמל סטינג טו. שלום, קוראים לי טל. שלום, אני יעל. נעים מאוד. נעים מאוד גם לי. בואו נסתכל על הקונבסטיישן עם תלמידי אנגלית. שלום, קוראים לי טל. שלום, אני יעל. שלום, אני יעל. נעים מאוד. נעים מאוד גם לי. נעים מאוד גם לי. פרסט וי-הב. לקרוא. תוקל. ל-ק-רוא. ל-ק-רוא. נקסט. לי. תו או פור מי. לי. לי. נקסט. אני. איי. אה-ני. אני. נקסט. נעים. פלזנט או ניס. נעים. נעים. נקסט. מאוד. מאוד fluids. בריק. מאוד. מאוד. מאוד. וילד. גם. גם. כל fonctionne. גם. כמוי. אפ simplistic.귀 purchases א�emption Ottawa. גם państwa will go to years here incrosate gates in sareen that people in general. there are Or something that people always do In English you would express this as One does something Or you would say it in a passive tense In Hebrew though You use the masculine plural form of the verb And drop the subject Let's see this demonstrated With our phrase קורים לי We'll have to break down the phrase In order to do that So the first word is קורים Which means call Or technically they call Right, the word for they Is not present in the sentence It's implied The second word in the sentence is לי And in this case it means to me Altogether we have They call to me Or they call me קורים לי In English it would be I am called Because you would use the passive to express such a concept It could be translated as They call me Or one calls me At the end of the sentence you would say your name Like קורים לי אמיר And you would have just told someone your name Let's go further with this grammar subject To demonstrate how it works Let's use the word לדבר Which means to speak Okay So first we need to conjugate this verb Into the masculine plural form As we said Which is מדברים Using this in a sentence we could say מדברים גרמנית When we break this down we have מדברים Or they speak As we said earlier the subject they does not appear in Hebrew When you're talking about an action that people in general do After מדברים we have גרמנית Or German In other words the German language As you may have already guessed And the last word is בגרמניה In Germany So here we're talking about something that people in Germany do In general They speak German in Germany So let's go back to the sentence from our lesson קורים לי Now it's your turn You say קורים לי And then your name Ready? There was another way to say your name in the sample conversation And this one's extremely simple All you do is say אני Or I And then your name In English this would be I am And then your name You may have noticed that there's a word missing In the sentence Our sentence in Hebrew only contains two words I and the name of the person speaking That's right In Hebrew there are no words for the verb to be In the present tense The verb to be is implied or understood in the present tense It may seem a little like caveman talk in the beginning But you'll get used to it You can use this same idea when telling someone your profession You say אני And then your profession Amir do you want to demonstrate? Sure אני מהנדס מכונות Amir just told you that he's a mechanical engineer Now it's your turn Tell us your name אני This second way of telling your name is more informal And it's usually used in response to someone Rather than as an introduction So listen and repeat after me As I go through these two forms of how to introduce yourself in Hebrew Make sure to add your name at the end of the sentence And you can say this in response to someone when they introduce themselves Great work

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