This week we celebrate our podcast’s sixth anniversary. Can you believe it? Six years, שש שנים. It’s a good excuse to talk about שש, six, and its family of Hebrew words.
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New Words and Expressions:
Kvish shesh – Highway six – כביש שש
Kvish hotse Israel – Cross Israel highway – כביש חוצה ישראל
Kav shesh – Bus no. 6 – קו שש
Hayinu shisha – We were six (pl. m.) – היינו שישה
Shisha chaverim – Six friends (m.) – שישה חברים
Shisha yeladim – Six kids (m.) – שישה ילדים
Shisha banim – Six boys – שישה בנים
Hayinu shesh – We were six (pl. f.) – היינו שש
Shesh chaverot – Six friends (pl. f.) – שש חברות
Shesh nashim – Six women – שש נשים
Six girls – Shesh banot – שש בנות
Adom, aduma, adumim – Red (m., f., pl.) – אדום, אדומה, אדומים
Ez/Izim – Goat/goats – עז, עיזים
The six friends – Sheshet ha-chaverim – ששת החברים
Milchemet sheshet hayamim – The 6 Day War – מלחמת ששת הימים
Shesh ha-chaverot – The six friends (f.) – שש החברות
Shesh ha-nashim – The six women – שש הנשים
Shesh ha-banot – The six girls – שש הבנות
Shesh va-hetsi ba-boker – 6.30am – שש וחצי בבוקר
Shesh ba-erev – 6pm – שש בערב
Re’iya shesh-shesh – 6 over 6 vision (US: 20 20) – ראייה שש-שש
Shnot ha-shishim – The sixties – שנות השישים
Shnot ha-shloshim – The thirties – שנות השלושים
Shnot ha-shmonim – The eighties – שנות השמונים
600 – Shesh me’ot – שש מאות
6,000 – Sheshet alafim – ששת אלפים
60,000 – Shishim elef – שישים אלף
600,000 – Shesh me’ot elef – שש מאות אלף
6,000,000 – Shisha milion – שישה מיליון
6,000,000,000 – Shisha miliard – שישה מיליארד
Playlist and Clips:
Ha-tikva 6 – Ha-ivrit Ha-chadasha (lyrics)
Shlomo Artzi – Shisha (lyrics)
Milchemet Sheshet Ha-yamim – 6 Day War
Yehuda Poliker – Boker Yom Rishon (lyrics)
Shlomo Artzi – Lev Shavur Li-resisim (lyrics)
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