 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal. I want to make a quick video today on the subject of Kitzurim for fellow Hebrew learners, fellow people learning modern Hebrew Ibrit. So, Kitzurim are, I think, one of the things you're going to be really seeing a lot of if you're a Hebrew learner. They're actually one of the most bewildering facets of the language, in my opinion, and there certainly are a few of those. I think the reason for that is their sheer prevalence. There are so many Israelis absolutely love Kitzurim. They love making contractions out of words, and that maybe speaks to the Israeli mentality and always loving shortcuts, but you'll find these all over the place. Kitzurim can also be mean to use, let's say, a Kitzuriderech, which means like a shortcut, and therefore a Kitzurim can both have an linguistic meaning and a colloquial meaning totally outside a language. Now in English, a Kitzurim kind of overlaps with a few different brackets. One of those would be slang or acronyms. So for instance, we'd call the FDA, the Federal Drug Administration, or the United Nations, we'd call the UN. That's a, those are acronyms, but Kitzurim can also actually be used to abbreviate things for and make words that are actually spoken. So I'll give you a few examples. One of those would be the United Nations is called in Hebrew, Ha'um, and that's an acronym that's actually spoken as a word. Ha'z is an acronym for, is a Kitzur for L'uach Zman, like my schedule, Alad Shalipatua Chayum, for instance, to put that in a sentence, Sofash is another really, is another one you'll hear a lot, which is a Kitzur for Sof Shavua, Sof HaShavua, so that the weekend in other words. So you would say Sof HaSh, but you wouldn't say, for instance, Ahab. So Artsota Birit, when you see it written in, in, in the news, in the way, in the same way in English, we would say US, but we wouldn't say us. We wouldn't say, I just spent a few weeks in Osa. You'd say I spent a few weeks in the USA. There are also Kitzurim in Hebrew that you do not read. And Artsota Birit would be one of those. I've never heard people can correct me if I'm wrong. I've never heard someone say Ahab. I've never heard someone read that out. But you do see all the time in Hebrew language news, Alif, Reish, Hey, Chubchuk, Bait. So that is written. So let me just quickly go ahead and I'm going to show you one thing, firstly, how easily Kitzurim are encountered. So sometimes I open up a news article in, in Hebrew. I meant to, I meant to jump screen right there. Sometimes they open up a news article in Hebrew and I'll take out my little notepad and a pen or a Google Doc. And I'll just begin sort of adding in vocab. I might know by running it through more fix to translate it. But commonly I'll also have to look up Kitzurim. So this is an article about the corona. So Lerishonah means for the exclusive, I guess is the best English translation. Sevatatipul b'magifot yakayem diyun patohach al khisune corona leyaladim. Which means that the corona task force is going to be opening up a public discussion for the treatment of coronavirus among children. So let's just, let's just go ahead translating this. Biakvut ishur ha FDA, following FDA approval ha satam? What's a satam? So here we go. We made it four words into this article and we have a kitzur. And that's why I actually chose to make this video. Ha satam yakayem bayom hamshi diyun patohach le tibur. So that sentence to me is fine except for the kitzur in it. Ha satam. So here's what you can do. Do not fear the kitzurim. I would argue the URL is not, there should be a T in it. But there is not, it's kizur.co.il. And this is a kitzur lookup tool. So what you can do is you can either a lookup by a kitzur or you can search for a word and see if there is a kitzur available for it. You can go kitzur to words or words to kitzurim. So for instance, if I wanted to look up ha satam. So I don't, I don't need the definite article. So I just need the satam part of it. And I'm just going to pop that into my magical kitzur demystifier. And you can see we have a match. So it says kitzur and ha gadra. And by the way, there's another great tool which I'm sure most people watching this video are familiar with and that's Morphix. So the other great mystifier in learning Hebrew is vowelization because vowels aren't written out in Hebrew. So sometimes I do just pop that in in order to both look up the definition of a word ha gadara. Sorry, ha gadara. There's a, there's another vowel there. I was missing, I was missing under the race and that's a definition. I didn't know what it meant. No ha gadara. So the ha gadara of the kitzur for satam is sevet pitul maghefot, which literally translates to a treatment team in plagues. The definition of that's maghefa. So that's basically it's just a contraction for the treatment team in the, in pandemics. In other words, again, the corona task force, but because that's been so commonly referenced over this period, it's got its own kitzur. That's what I mean about Israelis loving kitzurim is going to be convening an open discussion. So if you encounter a kitzur or a, and here's another of them, you can, you can spot them quickly just by looking at the, mankal is a, is a common one, which means a CEO. If I put mankal, and if you want to know what it means, it's actually a kitzur for Menahel Klalli, general manager. Let's see if I want to go the other way around. You can look up Sof Shavua. So I looked up Sof Shavua and it told me that Sof Shavua is Sofash, which you'll hear, as I said, colloquially used as a slang word. So if you are boggled by the kitzurim, do not be boggled. You can deboggle yourself by going on to kizur.co.il. It's a kitzur lookup tool. You can go from kitzur to full words, or you can go from full words to kitzurim. And it's one of the many helpful websites that exist. If you are learning Hebrew. Thank you guys for watching. And if you want to get more videos from me, subscribe to this YouTube channel.