פלפל שחור
“פלפל שחור” (пильпель шахор) — black pepper in Hebrew. Noun, level A1. The pilpel stands for pepper in general; the black peppercorn is told apart by the adjective shachor — black — which you know. The red vegetable is the pilpel matok of the early lesson. In a live sentence: “פלפל שחור ומלח, בבקשה.” — Black pepper and salt, please. Written with the characters פ, ל, פ, ל, ש, ח, ו, ר. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | פלפל שחור |
| Read in Latin letters | пильпель шахор |
| Translation | black pepper |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The pilpel stands for pepper in general; the black peppercorn is told apart by the adjective shachor — black — which you know. The red vegetable is the pilpel matok of the early lesson
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.
- פלפל שחור ומלח, בבקשה.пильпель шахор ве-мелях, бевакаша.Black pepper and salt, please.
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 “black pepper” in Hebrew?
«פלפל שחור», read “пильпель шахор”. In a live sentence: “פלפל שחור ומלח, בבקשה.” — Black pepper and salt, please. Noun, level A1; written with the characters פ, ל, פ, ל, ש, ח, ו, ר.
How is “פלפל שחור” written in Latin letters?
пильпель шахор. 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 pilpel stands for pepper in general; the black peppercorn is told apart by the adjective shachor — black — which you know. The red vegetable is the pilpel matok of the early lesson. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.