Hebrew Tongue Twisters

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
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1 Shelama Shlomo Shalem Simla Shlaima?

2 AKKO KUSTA TAL ZFAT KUSTA TAL GAM KEN.

3 ISHA NA'ALA, NA'ALA NA'ALA, NA'ALA ET HADELET BIFNEY BA'ALA.

4 SARA SHARA SHIR SAME'AKH, SHEM HASHIR, SHIR HASIR

5 BAKONZERT MAR MALCHI NAM, HASHIRIM KAMAL CHINAM, SACH MAR MALCHI MALCHINAM, AMALI AMAL CHINAM.

6 KAMA CHOL YACHOL ADAM LE'ECOL BECHOL YEMOT HACHOL IM BECHOL YOM CHOL YACHOL ADAM LE'ECHOL CHETZI KILO CHOL?

7 MI TALA PO PITA? PITA LO TOLIM!

8 SARA SHARA SHIR SAME'AKH, SHIR SAME'AKH SHARA SARA

9 SASHA SAM SHAM SHESEK.

10 PIL MEFULPAL MITPALEL LEPILPEL

11 KESHISHIM KUSHIM KSHISHIM

12 ANI LO MEHAMITMAHAMEHIM, ANI MEHAMITMAHAMEHOT

13 TAPPUACH HAFUKH, TAPPUZ HAFUKH.

14 TATETATA! LO, ATA TATETATA!

15 NACHASH NASHACH NACHASH SHE NASHACH NACHASH.

16 BAKBUK BLI P'KAK.

17 YESHNA HAKARA KARA SHEMILCHAMA CHAMA TEEMCHE KOL MA SHEKARA MITACHAT LACHAMA

18 TITETA ATA ET HA-TA? LO, ATA TETATE ET HA-TA!

19 SHARSHERET SHEL SHESH SHINAYIM SHVUROT.

20 SHIR HA-SHIRIM 'ASHER LI-SHLOMO, ISHAQENI MI-NSHIQOT PIHU. from The Song of Salomon 1:1-2

21 LEYLAH HAYA LEYLO, LEYLO HAYA LO LAH. from a poem by Alexander Pen

22 MSHAL HA-SHILSHUL SHEL SHULA HA-MASHMIMA MASHLIM ET SHLAL HA-MSHALIM SHEL SHLOMO HA-SHLILI.

23 MI MANA MIMENU LEMALMEL MILIM?

24 SAM SAM SHAM SAM.

25 BUG BA DESIGN ZE ZAIN BA DEBUG

26 ABALOBABAALEFBAAVABABABABEITBAAV

27 KAH MATATE VE-TATE AT-A-TA!

28 SHULA SHOLA SHABLULIM BASHLULIT, KOL SHABLUL SHESHULA SHOLA HU SHELA

29 GANAN GIDEL DAGAN BAGAN, DAGAN GADOL GADAL BAGAN.

30 SHALOM SHILEM MECHIR GDOL SHESHILSHEL SHILSULIM SHEL HARBE CESEF

31 SASHA SHISE-A SHINAV BA-SHESEK

32 SHOFET SHALOM SHAFAT SHILSHOM SHISHIM SHOMREI SHABAT SEZA'AKU ""SHABES, SHABES, SHABES""

33 ATA TETATA ET HA TA? ANI LO TETATI ET HA TA TITATE ATA ET HA TA

34 ANACHNU LO MEHAMEMAHARIM WELO MEHAMEMAHAROTH

35 TITITI ET HATA. TITITA ET HATA? TITAY ATA ET HATA ATA!

36 GAD DAG DAGIM MEDAGDEGIM BAGADA

37 HA-ATAH TIT'TA ET HA-TA

38 AKKO CUSTA SHELEG, ZFAT AFIKUSTA.

Rough Translations 1. Why should Shlomo pay for the full shirt? From a biography of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, the French/German Biblical commentator of the 11th century, using the same letters for four straight words. It is only intelligible with the vowels. 2. The town of Akko was covered with dew, the town of Zfat was covered with dew, too. 3. A dignified woman, put on her shoe, locked the door in the face of her husband. 4. Sarah sings a happy song, the song's name is ""song of the pot"". 5. Mr. Malchi was sleeping in the concert. The songs aren't attractive any more, said Mr. Malchi, their author. My work is of no use. 6. How much sand can a man eat on all the days of a week if on each day of the week a man can eat half a kilo of sand? 7. Who hanged a pita here? You don't hang pita! 8. Sara sang a happy song, a happy song sang Sara. 9. Sasha put the loquat (fruit) there. 10. A smart aleck elephant is praying for a pepper. 11. About sixty old black men 12. I am not one of the male procrastinators, I am from the female procrastinators. 13. Upside-down apple, upside-down orange. 14. Sweep the cabin! No, you sweep the cabin! 15. A snake bit a snake who bit a snake. 16. A bottle without a cap/cork. 17. there is a cold conviction that a hot war (nuclear) will wip-out all that happened under the sun 18. Did you sweep the cabin? No, you will sweep the cabin. 19. A lace of six broken teeth. 20. From the Song of Songs, which is Salomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! (The Song of Salomon 1:1-2) Spanish: El Cantar de los Cantares, que es de Salomon. ¡Béseme el con los besos de su boca! (El Cantar de los Cantares 1:1-2) 21. Her night belonged to him, his night didn't belong to her. 22. The earthworm fable of boring Shula completes negative Salomon's collection of perfect fables. 23. Who prevented him from murmuring words? 24. Sam put a drug there. 25. Bug in the design, is a pain in the debug. 26. Father does not come on the 1-st of 'AV' (jewish month), father comes on the 2-nd of 'AV' 27. Take a broom and sweep the cabin! 28. Shula is picking snails at the puddle. Every snail that shula is picking is her's. 29. The gardner grew cereal in the garden, big cereal grew in the garden. 30. Shalom payed a lot of money that is a lot of money (?) 31. Sasha ran from the medlar (?) 32. Two days ago a judge tried 60 shabat keepers in court, who yelled ""shabes, shabes, shabes"". 33. Did you sweep the closet? No, I did not sweep the closet, you go sweep the closet. 34. We are none of the fast guys, and none of fast girls. German: Wir sind keine von den flotten Jungs und keine von den flinken Maedels. 35. I swept the cabin. Did you sweep the cabin? Sweep the cabin now! 36. Gad fishes, tickling fish on the riverbank. 37. Have you swept out the booth? 38. Akko was covered in snow, Zfat was also covered. Toda Pierre Abbat, Assaf Amitai, Eran Baruch, Howard Cohen, Johpa Deumlaokeng, David Druce, Reuven Evron, Dan Feldman, Rabbi Mark Gross, Andrei Grunfeld, Vadik Gutorov, Dror Haim, Avraham Hampel, Rina Kreitman, Nitsana Lazerus, Nhec Lebra, Yvonne Lee, Ada Lewinski, Esti Mayer, Omer Mor, Moshe Nahir, Samuel Ohayon, E. Reuven, Rami Saari, Itai Shaked, Ain Shem, Zohar Silvan, Haim Tal, Orly Traubici, Yael Wasserman, Oren We', Dawid Wiskott [ Send a new tongue twister | Return to Index | Top of page ]