Use it Schmooze it: By now we’re sure you’ve been using your Yiddish with family and friends, so translate Gary and Barry’s schmooze and show yourself what you’re made of! Go get ‘em tiger!   װוּ איז די אַקאַדעמיע? Vu iz di akademie? Barry: What’s doing Gary? _________________________________ Gary: A lot!! _________________________________ Barry: Yeah…..? _________________________________…

Hungry? Translate this schmooze between the Yiddishe Mame and her kind. דו װילסט עסן? Du vilst esn? You wanna eat? מאַמע׃ זיסעלע, דו װילסט טרינקען? Mame: Zisele, du vilst trinken? _________________________________ קינד׃ נײן, איך װיל נישט טרינקען. Child: Neyn, ikh vil nisht trinken. _________________________________ מאַמע׃ זיסעלע, דו װילסט עסן אַ ביסל ברױט? Mame: Zisele, du…

Use it Schmooze it: By now we’re sure you’ve been using your Yiddish with family and friends, so translate Gary and Barry’s schmooze and show yourself what you’re made of! Go get ‘em tiger! װוּ איז די אַקאַדעמיע? Vu iz di akademie?   Barry: What’s doing Gary? _________________________________ Gary: A lot!! _________________________________ Barry: Yeah…..? _________________________________…

Food glorious food! They tried to kill us …we won…..let’s eat! Write in the English translation.   עסן Esn __________   פֿרישטאָג Frishtog __________   מיטאָג Mitog __________   נאַכטמאָל Nakhtmol __________   ברױט Broyt __________   קיכעלעך kikhelekh __________   מילך Milkh __________   פּוטער Puter __________   קעז Kez __________   פֿיש Fish…

Fill it in! Let’s rock these verbs and get’em good, fill in the proper pronoun and/or verb in the missing spaces. Examples of verb conjugation _____  גײען צו שולע אין מאַנהאַטען. _____ geyen tsu shule in Manhattan.  _____  קומט פֿון אײַרלאַנד. _____ kumt fun Ayerland. _____  עסט אַ סאַך עסן אױף שבת. _____ est a…

What’s the verb? On the lines provided write in the Yiddish Verb. נוצליכער װערבין Nutslikher verbin Go _________________________________ Come _________________________________ Want _________________________________ Need _________________________________ Eat _________________________________ Schmooze _________________________________ Speak _________________________________ Know _________________________________ Say _________________________________ Sleep _________________________________ Buy _________________________________ Sell _________________________________ Do _________________________________ Show off/ Sweat _________________________________ Live (location-Where does he live?) _________________________________ Live (time span-How…

Presenting….(drum roll please) Present tense Fill in the correct form of the verb גײ  gey meaning go. (Remember this is really important to remember.) _________איך Ikh________   __________דו Du_________   __________ער Er_________   __________עס Es__________   __________מיר Mir_________   __________זײ Zey_________   _________איר Ir___________

Great job!!! On the lines below write the translation of this very humorous …story…uh….or maybe its more like a joke. Whatever it is keep up the great work! 😉   נאָך אַ פּאָר Nokh a por ___________________    אַ יִיד האָט געטראָפֿען אַ כעלמער אין דער גאַס. זעט ער אַז דער כעלמער טראָגט אײן שװאַרצע …

אַ שפּריכװאָרט “פֿון אַ ביסל מיט אַ ביסל װערט אַ פֿולע שיסל.” “Fun a bisl mit a bisl vert a fule shisl”   “From a little with a little becomes a full plate.”   Meaning: Keep at it, and you’ll see a little become a lot.   If you’ve kept it up, you’ve added word…

דו װילסט עסן?     Du vilst esn? You wanna eat?   In this poignant story, the protagonist is introduced to a common problem. מאַמע׃ זיסעלע, דו װילסט טרינקען?   Mame: Zisele, du vilst trinken?             Sweety, do you want to drink? קינד׃ נײן, איך װיל נישט טרינקען.   Child: Neyn, ikh vil nisht trinken.…

װוּ איז די אַקאַדעמיע? Vu iz di akademie? Where is the academy?  I thought this was just silly.    בערי׃ װאָס הערט זיך,גערי?   Barry: Vos hert zikh Geri?          What’s doing Gary? גערי׃ אַ סאַך!!   Gary: A sakh!!         A lot!! בערי׃ נו…   Barry: Nu…          yeah… ("well," an interjection)…

Present Tense What you’ve all been waiting for: the rules for regular present tense! Every verb has a base. The standard present tense has standard endings you add to the base for when you want to use it with any case or pronoun. The infinitive of the verb לערנען, lernen, meaning “to learn” has the…

נאָך אַ פּאָר Nokh a por Another Pair Another classic Yiddish joke below, your last one for the course. L We’re sure by now Yiddish has become a lot more familiar to You, and reading this paragraph should be a lot easier than the last four. Moyshe is a lot nicer than me. He put…