Gitel is Yiddish. Tzadik is technically a correct answe, but it carries a religious context (more of a "good jew" than a good person) There are many possible translations depending on the context. a few are: Ish tov / Isha tova - Good man/woman (adjectives receive gender too!) Adam tov - Good person ("adam" is male but can serve as an unspecific catch-all, not unlike "person") Osseh tov - doer of good, literally. Nadiv / Nedivah (m/f) - generous, also the closest word to "benevolent" in Hebrew Shokher tov - good willing (archaic)

I don't know the exact term, but babylon seems to confirm your explanation. Pronunciation: "ha'avaRAH"

!שלום

אני אמיליה.
אני מפולין.
אני תלמידה.

It's so hard... :D <-- Everything's hard at first.

Hebrew has 5 suffix letters, an alternate form that appears whenever the letter closes a word
מ becomes ם

נ becomes ן

כ becomes ך

פ becomes ף

צ becomes ץ

אני - I Am (informal, used more often) שמי - My name is (formal, archaic) אני צביקה = I am Tzvika אני עייף = I am tired שמי צביקה = My name is Tzvika שמי עייף = nope, doesn't work.

The differences are too many to note directly, but the general idea is not unlike any other language that developed and evolved through the ages. The vocabulary is more or less the same all across (some words go out of fashion, new concepts are introduced, very few words change their meaning). Sentence structures change somewhat, but they're based upon similar logic. Also note that while modern Hebrew is relatively well codified and understood between all speakers (owing mostly to not being spread across continents...), there's no single "Old Hebrew" dialect. The Torah depicts events allegedly taking place millenia before it was written, and the last parts of the bible were written centuries after it - some of them in Aramaic, even.

to joke = להתבדח to mock = ללעוג to laugh = לצחוק the root ZHK often serves for all the above in spoken hebrew, so the framing is important צוחק על = laughing at צוחק עם = laughing with when in doubt, you may want to throw a noncommittal "סתם", to make it clear that you are JUST kidding.

to joke = להתבדח to mock = ללעוג to laugh = לצחוק the root ZHK often serves for all the above in spoken hebrew, so the framing is important צוחק על = laughing at צוחק עם = laughing with when in doubt, you may want to throw a noncommittal "סתם", to make it clear that you are JUST kidding.