כתובת הנמען
“כתובת הנמען” (ктовэт ха-немаан) — recipient address in Hebrew. Noun, level A1. The namea is the one the letter goes to, the recipient; his address, ktovet hanama, is written legibly. In a live sentence: “כתובת הנמען למעלה.” — The recipient address is at the top. Written with the characters כ, ת, ו, ב, ת, ה, נ, מ, ע. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | כתובת הנמען |
| Read in Latin letters | ктовэт ха-немаан |
| Translation | recipient address |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The namea is the one the letter goes to, the recipient; his address, ktovet hanama, is written legibly
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.
- כתובת הנמען למעלה.ктовэт ха-немаан ле-маала.The recipient address is at the top.
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 “recipient address” in Hebrew?
«כתובת הנמען», read “ктовэт ха-немаан”. In a live sentence: “כתובת הנמען למעלה.” — The recipient address is at the top. Noun, level A1; written with the characters כ, ת, ו, ב, ת, ה, נ, מ, ע.
How is “כתובת הנמען” written in Latin letters?
ктовэт ха-немаан. 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?
The namea is the one the letter goes to, the recipient; his address, ktovet hanama, is written legibly. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.