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Lesson Three



Consonants

The "nun" is pronounced "n" as in no.


The "final nun" is the form of the letter used when at the end of a word. The pronunciation does not change.


The "hey" is pronounced "h" as in hello. When the "hey" is suffixed to the end of a word it makes the word feminine. When it is prefixed to the front of a word it is the definite article meaning "the".


Notes

  1. The English verb "to be" and its various tenses such as "am", "is" and "are" do not exist in Hebrew and need to be added in the translation.

  2. English has two indefinite articles, "a" and "an" which also do not exist in Hebrew and must be added in the translation.

  3. The vocabulary word below "ba'ah" is the feminine form of the masculine verb "ba'" (came) which was introduced in lesson 1.

  4. When the dagesh (the dot in the middle of a letter) is placed within some letters, such as in the nun in the word for "Here [am] I" in the vocabulary list below, it doubles the letter. Therefore, this letter would be pronounced "hin-ney-niy" rather than "hi-ney-niy".

  5. The final syllable of most Hebrew words is accented by pronouncing the final Consonant-Vowel-Consonant as a syllable. For instance, the word for "I", in the vocabulary list below, is pronounced "a-niy" rather than an-iy. Occasionally this is not possible such as in the word "hiy'" (she), here the word is only one syllable.

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