לקשט את הבית
“לקשט את הבית” (лекашэт эт ха-баит) — to decorate the house in Hebrew. Phrase, level A2. Lechashet — to dress up and to decorate: the house, the tree, the hall. The decorations are kishutim: garlands, balloons, candles. In a live sentence: “לקשט את הבית לחג.” — Decorate the house for the holiday. Written with the characters ל, ק, ש, ט, א, ת, ה, ב, י, ת. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | לקשט את הבית |
| Read in Latin letters | лекашэт эт ха-баит |
| Translation | to decorate the house |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Lechashet — to dress up and to decorate: the house, the tree, the hall. The decorations are kishutim: garlands, balloons, candles
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.
- לקשט את הבית לחג.лекашэт эт ха-баит ле-хаг.Decorate the house for 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 “to decorate the house” in Hebrew?
«לקשט את הבית», read “лекашэт эт ха-баит”. In a live sentence: “לקשט את הבית לחג.” — Decorate the house for the holiday. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ל, ק, ש, ט, א, ת, ה, ב, י, ת.
How is “לקשט את הבית” written in Latin letters?
лекашэт эт ха-баит. 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?
Lechashet — to dress up and to decorate: the house, the tree, the hall. The decorations are kishutim: garlands, balloons, candles. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.