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#267 Six Is a Beautiful Number

Aug 20, 201910 minEp. 267
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Episode description

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:

Kvish 6

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)

Shesh-shesh

Shlomo Artzi - Lev Shavur Li-resisim (lyrics)

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