Hebrew/Greetings

Description: This lesson contains some basic greetings. There are approximately 10 vocabulary words and 5 phrases. This lesson has no prerequisite lessons, although the Aleph-Bet would be useful.

Adjectives

 * Can be used with appropriate time of day (morning, afternoon, evening, night) as a greeting.

Phrases

 * לְהִתְרָאוֹת : See you (Lehitra-ot)


 * ?מָה שְלוֹמְךָ : How are you? (to a man; Ma sh'lomkha)
 * ?מָה שְלוֹמֵך : How are you? (to a woman; Ma sh'lomekh)


 * : What is your name? (Ma Shimkha?) מה שמך?


 * : My name is X. (Shmi hu X) שמי הוא X

-- good night

Example Dialog
?מָה שְלוֹמְךָ בְּסֵדֶר Translation: How are you (to a man)? Ok.

שָׁלוֹם לילה טוֹב ?מָה שְלוֹמֵך טוֹב Translation: Hello. Good night. How are you (to a woman)? Good.

Exercises
Translate the following conversation into Hebrew:

"Hello!" "How are you?"(Translate to a man, then a woman.) "Good." "Goodbye, and good night." "Goodbye."

Related lessons
Hebrew/Basic 1

For a more advanced lesson on greetings, see Hebrew/Greetings2 (add there: I'm happy to/It's good to meet you.     I'm fine.  She is sick.  )