If language had a special sauce, you know, that ingredient that just brings the overall dish alive with flavor and spice, it would have to be slang.
Slang keeps a language on its feet with new words and ways to use old words being introduced all the time.
This is especially true for Hebrew. It’s such a dynamic language. Someone five years younger than you could use words that you might have never actually heard. I know that this is true in all languages but in Hebrew slang is so much a part of the language and it’s also just great fun.
Here are 10 of our favourite Hebrew slang phrases that you will hear all the time in Israel…
| Hebrew Hi Bye Boker tov Layla tov Ma kore? Tov Sababa Toda (Raba) Le-Chaim Be-Vakasha Sli-cha Efo-ze…? Kama ze-olé? Yom tov |
English Hi Bye Good morning Good night What’s up? Good All-Cool Thank you (Very much) Cheers! Please Sorry Where is…? How much is it? Have a good day |
