כואב לי הגרון
“כואב לי הגרון” (коэв ли ха-гарон) — my throat hurts in Hebrew. Phrase, level A2. It is not I who hurts but the throat: it is the subject, and you get the little li. The same scheme as koev li harosh — my head hurts. In a live sentence: “כואב לי הגרון מאתמול.” — My throat hurts since yesterday. Written with the characters כ, ו, א, ב, ל, י, ה, ג, ר, ו. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | כואב לי הגרון |
| Read in Latin letters | коэв ли ха-гарон |
| Translation | my throat hurts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
It is not I who hurts but the throat: it is the subject, and you get the little li. The same scheme as koev li harosh — my head hurts
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.
- כואב לי הגרון מאתמול.коэв ли ха-гарон мэ-этмоль.My throat hurts since yesterday.
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 “my throat hurts” in Hebrew?
«כואב לי הגרון», read “коэв ли ха-гарон”. In a live sentence: “כואב לי הגרון מאתמול.” — My throat hurts since yesterday. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters כ, ו, א, ב, ל, י, ה, ג, ר, ו.
How is “כואב לי הגרון” written in Latin letters?
коэв ли ха-гарон. 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?
It is not I who hurts but the throat: it is the subject, and you get the little li. The same scheme as koev li harosh — my head hurts. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.