International Phrasebooks

This week’s word is, clock/watch, or, in Hebrew, Pronounced shah-ohn. You can use it in sentences such as the following: Do you have a wrist watch? Transliterated this reads: Yesh l’chah (m.) shah-ohn yad?

And, My watch doesn’t work, what time is it? Transliterated this reads: Ha-shah-ohn sheh-lee lo oh-vaid, mah ha-sha-ah?

And, Did you (f.) see the clock tower in the square?  Transliterated this reads: Rah-eet et meeg-dal ha-shah-ohn ba-kee-kar?

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