כתובת אימייל
“כתובת אימייל” (ктовэт имейл) — email address in Hebrew. Noun, level A1. The ktovet is taken by the address — the home one; the electronic one is the address of the mail. In speech they say it short: mail. In a live sentence: “תן לי את הכתובת אימייל שלך.” — Give me your email address. Written with the characters כ, ת, ו, ב, ת, א, י, מ, י, י, ל. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | כתובת אימייל |
| Read in Latin letters | ктовэт имейл |
| Translation | email address |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The ktovet is taken by the address — the home one; the electronic one is the address of the mail. In speech they say it short: mail
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.
- תן לי את הכתובת אימייל שלך.тэн ли эт ха-ктовэт имейл шельха.Give me your email address.
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 “email address” in Hebrew?
«כתובת אימייל», read “ктовэт имейл”. In a live sentence: “תן לי את הכתובת אימייל שלך.” — Give me your email address. Noun, level A1; written with the characters כ, ת, ו, ב, ת, א, י, מ, י, י, ל.
How is “כתובת אימייל” written in Latin letters?
ктовэт имейл. 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 ktovet is taken by the address — the home one; the electronic one is the address of the mail. In speech they say it short: mail. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.