Your Daily Dose of Hebrew helps grow your Hebrew vocabulary and comprehension of the language exponentially, one dose at a time, in just 5 minutes a day.

This free learning tool includes:

  • a new word or phrase with explanation and examples with audio
  • a Hebrew conversation with audio using that word
  • a weekly review with games and quizzes to help you hone your new vocabulary
  • an Israeli music video of the week with linear translation

בּוֹא הֵנָּה

You might hear a mother say to her son the literal בוא לפה – come (to) here – but you’re more likely to hear her say to him, בוא הנה .

For example:

בוא הנה, אני רוצה להחליף איתך מילה.

Come here, I want to have a word with you.

הֵנָּה comes from הן , a flowery word for here, already in poetical use in Biblical Hebrew where it means something more like behold. The ה-ָ at the end of the word indicates direction, like the ה-ָ in צפונה – to the north (לצפון ) and the Biblical מצרימה – to Egypt (למצרים ). Thus הנה means to here.

Now, בוא הנה is come here when speaking to a male. To a female, it’s בואי הנה , and to more than one person it’s בואו הנה .

Daily Hebrew Conversation

After having studied literature and linguistics on the bachelors level and psychology on the masters, Ami Steinberger decided to draw upon his hobby of learning languages, his understanding of human thought processes and his skill of explaining complex ideas in simple terms, to found Ulpan La-Inyan, a program that enables people to speak Hebrew with confidence.

Ami has been writing Your Daily Dose of Hebrew since 2010.