Lesson 112: Education and Exams

Studying is a world of its own vocabulary — exams, grades, degrees. This lesson gives you the language of school and university, and a chance to revisit the conditional.

After the exam

Grammar: “to prepare for” and a real conditional

The verb for studying for something is לְהִתְכּוֹנֵן לְ־ (lehitkonen le-, “to prepare for”): הִתְכּוֹנַנְתִּי לַבְּחִינָה (“I prepared for the exam”).

Notice the real conditional again — אִם (im, “if”) + future, with the result also in the future: אִם אֶעֱבֹר, אֲסַיֵּם אֶת הַתֹּאַר (im e’evor, asayem…, “if I pass, I’ll finish the degree”). Both verbs are future.

Tip: לַעֲבֹר (la’avor) means “to pass” (an exam) — the same verb as “to cross / to pass by”. לִכְשֹׁל (lichshol) is “to fail”.

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