Have Any Plans for the Weekend?

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What are your plans for the weekend? What are your plans for next year? Planning anything? Was this planned? Hey, any plans?

On this episode, Guy explains the Hebrew root ת.כ.נ and how to say that something was unplanned.

New Words and Expressions:

Ten li koach – Give me strength – תן לי כוח

Tochnit – Program, plan – תוכנית

“Ha-sha’a shmone, ein li tochniyot” – It’s eight o’clock, I don’t have plans – השעה שמונה, אין לי תוכניות

Ma ha-tochniyot? – What are the plans? – מה התוכניות

“Tiyul, avoda, limudim” – Trip, work, studies – טיול, עבודה, לימודים

Tochnit radio – Radio show – תוכנית רדיו

Tochnit televizya – TV program – תכנית טלוויזיה

Tochniyot metsi’ut – Reality show – תוכנית מציאות

“Lama at mit’akeshet letachnen li ta-chayim” – Why do you insist on planning my life – למה את מתעקשת לתכנן לי ת’חיים

Letachnen – To plan – לתכנן

Tichnun – Planning, designing – תכנון

Ma ha-tichnunim le-shabbat – What are the plans for Saturday – מה התכנונים לשבת

Ma ha-tichnunim la-shana ha-ba’a – What are the plans for next year – מה התכנונים לשנה הבאה

Metuchnan – Planned – מתוכנן

Ha-herayon haya metuchnan – The pregnancy was planned – ההריון היה מתוכנן

“Mikriyut mevorechet” – Blessed coincidence – מקריות מבורכת

She’ela ishit – Personal question – שאלה אישית

Ma metuchnan le-shabbat – What’s planned for Saturday – מה מתוכנן לשבת

Tochna – Software – תוכנה

Handasat tochna – Software engineering – הנדסת תוכנה

Tochnat zoom – The Zoom software – תוכנת זום

Lama tsarich lilmod tichnut – Why does one needs to learn programming – למה צריך ללמוד תיכנות

To program – Letachnet – לתכנת

Metachnet, tochnitan – Programmer – מתכנת, תוכניתן

Tochen – Content – תוכן

Tochen ha-inyanim – The table of contents – תוכן העניינים

Tchuna – Feature, attribute – תכונה

Playlist and Clips:

Mati Caspi – Yom Shishi Chazar (lyrics)

Daniel Sergi – Ma Ha-tochniyot (Spoken Word)

Josie Katz – Tni Li Lehachlit (lyrics)

Herayon lo metuchnan – Unplanned pregnancy (Go to min. 11.30)

Tochna – Software

Tochnat Zoom – Tutorial

Letachnet, tichnut

Max Malkiel – Recipes

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1 comment on “Have Any Plans for the Weekend?

  1. Dan Bernstein says:

    Shaaalom Guy,
    I think it’s a good time to review soccer words in Hebrew. I am speaking both timing and experience. I learned about soccer living in France for an academic year of Sep. 68-June 69. I have continued to play since. I am in the Albany (NY) area and we have a 40plus league with 16 teams. We are now all old and slow but continue to stay on the pitch. I plan to be in Israel soon and hope to find a league of older players up north.
    In my younger days at 40 ish I had an indoor soccer team called the Altakickers (not to be confused with Alta kocker) and we were relatively old and all Jewish, thus the name. Also the basis of my email address.
    So can we learn to play soccer in Hebrew?
    L’hitraot,
    Dan (from Albany)

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