קרובי משפחה
“קרובי משפחה” (кровей мишпаха) — the relatives in Hebrew. Noun, level A1. Literally "the close ones of the family": karov — close — and a relative in one, you know the word. The kin is always plural. In a live sentence: “כל קרובי משפחה באים לחג.” — The whole family comes to the holiday. Written with the characters ק, ר, ו, ב, י, מ, ש, פ, ח, ה. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | קרובי משפחה |
| Read in Latin letters | кровей мишпаха |
| Translation | the relatives |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the close ones of the family": karov — close — and a relative in one, you know the word. The kin is always plural
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.
- כל קרובי משפחה באים לחג.коль кровей мишпаха баим ле-хаг.The whole family comes to the holiday.
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 “the relatives” in Hebrew?
«קרובי משפחה», read “кровей мишпаха”. In a live sentence: “כל קרובי משפחה באים לחג.” — The whole family comes to the holiday. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ק, ר, ו, ב, י, מ, ש, פ, ח, ה.
How is “קרובי משפחה” written in Latin letters?
кровей мишпаха. 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 "the close ones of the family": karov — close — and a relative in one, you know the word. The kin is always plural. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.