Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region
Talk about your town and region in Hebrew. Learn the words for places like a library, a bakery and a pharmacy, and features around the town, all in Hebrew script read right to left.
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Your town and region in Hebrew
This module builds your Hebrew vocabulary for the places in your town and the features around it. Remember that Hebrew is read from right to left, and everyday words are written with their consonants only. Meet each word paired with its English meaning, then practise until you know them.
Places in town
Start with four places you can visit. Each Hebrew word is shown with its English meaning.
Buildings or around town?
It helps to sort the words into buildings you visit and features you see around the town.
Match the Hebrew to the English
- בית מרקחת
- מאפייה
- ספרייה
- חנות ספרים
- A pharmacy
- A bakery
- A library
- A bookshop
The Hebrew word for a library
Which Hebrew word means a library?
- ספרייה
- בית מרקחת
- מאפייה
- חנות ספרים
More useful words
Around the town there is more to name. A mountain is הר, a bridge is גשר, a traffic light is רמזור, the main road is כביש ראשי, and a monument is אנדרטה.
Which one is being described
- הר
- גשר
- רמזור
- כביש ראשי
- Snow sits on the top of it long after the town below is warm
- It carries the road over the water so nobody gets their feet wet
- Red, then amber, then green, and the cars move again
- The widest one through town, and the busiest at rush hour
Which are buildings?
Select the TWO words that are buildings you can go into.
- בית מרקחת
- ספרייה
- הר
- גשר
Saying where you live
The place words become sentences once you add a pattern. Hebrew reads right to left, marks "in" with the prefix ב־ joined onto the place, and has no word for "is" in the present: - אני גר בתל אביב = "I live in Tel Aviv" (said by a male speaker). A female speaker says אני גרה בתל אביב. The ב־ on בתל does the work of "in". - יש ספרייה בעיר שלי = "there is a library in my town". יש is the word Hebrew uses for what exists, עיר is "town", and שלי is "my". This pattern does not change with the speaker.
A female student wants to say "I live in Tel Aviv"
A female student wants to say "I live in Tel Aviv". Which sentence is correct?
- אני גרה בתל אביב
- אני גר בתל אביב
- יש ספרייה בעיר שלי
- אני גרה תל אביב
Getting to the library
Put these steps in order to walk to the library.
- Leave your home
- Cross the road at the traffic light: רמזור
- Arrive at the library: ספרייה
Complete the town
In Hebrew, a library is _____. A bakery is _____. A pharmacy is _____. A mountain is _____ and a bridge is _____.
Town words in Hebrew
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- ספרייה means a library.
- גשר means a bridge.
- מאפייה means a mountain.
- בית מרקחת means a monument.
- הר means a library.
Where do you go?
For each situation, choose the correct Hebrew word for the place.
- You need some medicine. Where do you go?
- You want to borrow a book. Where do you go?
- You want to buy fresh bread. Where do you go?
Your turn: write in Hebrew
Write about your area IN HEBREW, using the two patterns from this module. Write in Hebrew script, right to left.
- Say where you live: אני גר בתל אביב ("I live in Tel Aviv", male speaker) or אני גרה בתל אביב (female speaker), swapping in your own town after ב־
- Say what your town has: יש ספרייה בעיר שלי ("there is a library in my town")
- Swap in another place: מאפייה (a bakery), בית מרקחת (a pharmacy) or חנות ספרים (a bookshop)
- Two of those are a construct pair (סמיכות) - two nouns joined, where Hebrew uses no word for "of": בית מרקחת is literally "house of medicine"