כמה זמן זה ייקח?
“כמה זמן זה ייקח?” (кама зман зэ йиках?) — how long will it take? in Hebrew. Phrase, level A2. Literally "how much time will it take": yikach — it will take — the future of lakachat, to take. The polite way to ask about the time in a workshop. In a live sentence: “כמה זמן זה ייקח לתקן?” — How long will the repair take? Written with the characters כ, מ, ה, ז, מ, ז, ה, י, י, ק, ח.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | כמה זמן זה ייקח? |
| Read in Latin letters | кама зман зэ йиках? |
| Translation | how long will it take? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "how much time will it take": yikach — it will take — the future of lakachat, to take. The polite way to ask about the time in a workshop
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- כמה זמן זה ייקח לתקן?кама зман зэ йиках летакен?How long will the repair take?
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “how long will it take?” in Hebrew?
«כמה זמן זה ייקח?», read “кама зман зэ йиках?”. In a live sentence: “כמה זמן זה ייקח לתקן?” — How long will the repair take? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters כ, מ, ה, ז, מ, ז, ה, י, י, ק, ח.
How is “כמה זמן זה ייקח?” written in Latin letters?
кама зман зэ йиках? This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "how much time will it take": yikach — it will take — the future of lakachat, to take. The polite way to ask about the time in a workshop. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.