If you can read Hebrew, you can probably sound out the word פִּיצָה and now exactly what it is. Here is a hint; it is a very popular food in America. PiY-TSaH = Pizza! Modern Hebrew uses a lot of loan words from other languages. Here are a couple of others that you may recognize. See if you can figure them out.
- קָפֶה
- שׁוֹקוֹלָד
- סוּפֶּרְמַרְקֶט
- טֶלֶפוֹן
- אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה
- וִידֵאוֹ
- אָבוֹקָדוֹ
- בָּנָנָה
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