suspended pearl of ice
| 12:43 Jan 15, 2002 |
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| 5 +1 | ha-levana hi pninat-kerakh tluya |
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| 5 | It's in the wrong place |
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It's in the wrong place Explanation: Mark, (a) this is not Hebrew > English, but E>H (b) you already posted this, and a reply given. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1ha-levana hi pninat-kerakh tluya Explanation: Maybe it wasn't you - in which case, a strange coincidence :-) Here it is again: the moon is a suspended pearl of ice = ha-levana hi pninat-kerakh tluya ha-levana = the moon (fairly literary - see below) hee = is (f.) pninat- = pearl of kerakh = ice tluya = suspended Notes: 'levana' is a poetic term for the moon (feminine). There is also 'yare'akh', the most common term (m.) and 'sahar' (poetic, m.). You could say: ha-sahar hu pninat-kerakh tluya (or: merakhefet = floating); maybe also add at the end 'ba-shamayim' = in the sky. As you can see, the word order is different in Hebrew. In addition, you don't bother with the indefinite article 'a' in Hebrew. As to pronunciation, here is where the stress goes: ha-levaNA hi pniNAT-KErakh tluYA yaRE'akh SAhar meraKHEfet bashaMAyim References: Native speaker and poetry translator |
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