From the course: Hebrew for Absolute Beginners

Saying hello

From the course: Hebrew for Absolute Beginners

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Saying hello

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אבסולוט בגינר, סייזן 1, לסן 1. Saying hello in Hebrew. In this lesson you will learn how to greet people in Hebrew. The conversation takes place at the office. It's between two colleagues who work together daily. Although this is an informal conversation, the same conversation could be used in a formal setting as well. שלום. שלום. מה שלמך? בסדר, תודה. Let's listen to the conversation with English translation. שלום. שלום. מה שלומך? בסדר, תודה. Fine, thanks. First we have שלום. שלום. Next. מה? What? מה. מה. Next. שלומך. Your peace or your condition. שלום-ח. שלומך. Next. בסדר. Fine or in order. בסדר. בסדר. And finally. תודה. Thanks. תודה. תודה. In this lesson you will learn how to greet people in Hebrew. ת pollut someone in Hebrew. נדבต. So for thatcc for that помощью משלומך. exactly. וvalue Him. exactamente bamboo this phrase is a little bit complicated וTP. and it is one the That you are and you use when to a magic. opposition בוה ש술גל המי lei catal Astraule estamos ש ano.トミー ועד העד tout размерט MUSIC ש bolagיםesh talk you If there is not can Which this suspension ג immensely את trays הוא priority מוט장 תג긚 estoy שם עד you that are not speaking for that part.RL. The first word in the phrase is simple. מה means what. The second word in the phrase is where it starts to get a little more complicated. But you guys can handle it, right? Of course they can. So שלומך is broken down into two parts. The first part you already know, although you may not recognize it. The first part is שלום, but you say it a little differently. שלום. I'm sure that you remember from the beginning of the lesson that this means peace, as well as hello and goodbye. In this context it means peace. The second part of the word, ח, is a possessive suffix, which means your. When you put it all together, it's מה שלומך, or what's your peace? Better yet, what's your condition? But don't worry about the literal translation. It simply means how. How are you? Like we said, all of that is fine if you're talking to one man or a boy. But what happens when you need to ask a girl how she is? Then you would just need to change the ending of the second word. מה שלומך becomes מה שלומך, when you're talking to one girl. And what happens when you want to ask more than one person how they are? You change the ending again. But the ending depends on whether you're talking to all girls or guys and a mixed bunch of people. When you're talking to guys, or a mixed bunch of people, you would say מה שלומכם, changing the suffix of the word because of who you're talking to. You would use this even if you're talking to a group of mostly girls, and there is only one guy in the crowd. And if you're talking to a group of all girls, you would say מה שלומכן. But keep in mind that the feminine plural form is used much less often these days. True. Many people don't bother to use this form. Instead, they will use the masculine plural form for all groups of people, instead of bothering to think whether they're just talking to girls. But you should learn this form anyway, because you'll find these endings in other places in Hebrew, and you'll need to know all four of these. That's right. So let's demonstrate how to use these endings for other words. We'll use the word דוד, which is the word for uncle. When you want to say your uncle, you add the same endings depending on who you're talking to. As demonstrated with שלום. Masculine singular is דודך. Feminine singular is דודך. Masculine plural is דודכם, and feminine plural is דודכן. Okay, before we go, we want to make sure that you get a chance to practice our main phrase in all the forms we taught you. So listen and repeat after me, as I go through the four forms of how to say, how are you, in Hebrew. First is the masculine singular. Please listen and repeat after Amir. מה שלומך? Feminine singular? מה שלומך? Masculine plural. מה שלומכם? Feminine plural. מה שלומכן?

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