לחלוץ נעליים
“לחלוץ נעליים” (лехалоц наалаим) — to take off shoes in Hebrew. Phrase, level A2. Lechalotz — to take shoes off, lechanel — to put them on: a pair of verbs for a pair of actions. In an Israeli home there is a shoe shelf by the door. In a live sentence: “בכניסה לבית חולצים נעליים.” — At the entrance to the house the shoes are taken off. Written with the characters ל, ח, ל, ו, נ, ע, ל, י, י.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | לחלוץ נעליים |
| Read in Latin letters | лехалоц наалаим |
| Translation | to take off shoes |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Lechalotz — to take shoes off, lechanel — to put them on: a pair of verbs for a pair of actions. In an Israeli home there is a shoe shelf by the door
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.
- בכניסה לבית חולצים נעליים.би-книса ле-баит хольцим наалаим.At the entrance to the house the shoes are taken off.
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 “to take off shoes” in Hebrew?
«לחלוץ נעליים», read “лехалоц наалаим”. In a live sentence: “בכניסה לבית חולצים נעליים.” — At the entrance to the house the shoes are taken off. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ל, ח, ל, ו, נ, ע, ל, י, י.
How is “לחלוץ נעליים” written in Latin letters?
лехалоц наалаим. 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?
Lechalotz — to take shoes off, lechanel — to put them on: a pair of verbs for a pair of actions. In an Israeli home there is a shoe shelf by the door. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.