Hebrew For Dummies. Jill Suzanne Jacobs

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СКАЧАТЬ שֶׁלִּי sheh-lee my, mine שֶׁלְּךָ shel-cha your, yours (MS) שֶׁלָּךְ sheh-lach your, yours (FS) שֶׁלּוֹ sheh-loh his שֶׁלָּה sheh-lah her, hers שֶׁלָּנוּ she-lah-noo ours שֶׁלָּכֶם sheh-lah-ḥem your, yours (MP) שֶׁלָּכֶן sheh-lah-hen your, yours (FP) שֶׁלָּהֶם sheh-lah-hem their, theirs (MP) שֶׁלָּהֶן sheh-lah-hen their, theirs (FP)

Hebrew doesn’t have different words for “my” and “mine.” Both concepts are expressed in the Hebrew word שֶׁלִּי (sheh-lee; my, mine). Also, “your” and “yours” are expressed with the same word.

In English, you sometimes pair a pronoun with another noun to show possession, as in “my teacher,” “your hat,” “his paper,” and so on. In Hebrew, you can show that a noun belongs to someone by attaching a suffix to the noun. The suffix changes according to the personal pronoun it represents and is called a pronomial suffix. The Nonbinary Hebrew Project has created nonbinary pronomial suffixes. The forms for male/female and nonbinary pronomial suffixes in both singular and plural form are shown in Table 2-5 and Table 2-6.

TABLE 2-5 Male and Female Pronomial Suffixes

י	ee	mine
וֹ	oh	his
ה	ah	hers
ךָ	hah	yours (MS)
ךְ	ech	yours (FS)
כֶם	hem	yours (MP)
כֵן	hen	yours (FP)
הֶם	hem	theirs (M)
הֵן	hen	theirs (F)

TABLE 2-6 Nonbinary Pronominal Suffixes

Second person singular	ךֶ (heh)
Second person plural	כֶמֵן (hemen)
Third person singular (single subject)	ה ֶ (eh)
Third person plural (single subject)	מֵן (men)
Third person singular (plural subject)	יהֶ ֶ (he’eh)
Third person plural (plural subject)	יהֶמֵןֵ (hemen)

Check out this YouTube video on Hebrew pronomial suffixes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaLTQF39Hj4.

      Applying adjectives

In Hebrew, the noun comes first, followed by the adjective, which is the opposite of English. So, for example, you say יַלְדָּה הוֹבָה (yahl-dah toh-vah; girl good), meaning “good girl.” You also need to know that adjectives need to match the nouns they modify, both in gender and in number. Table 2-7 lists some common adjectives. For more on number and gender, see the section “Understanding Gender and Number” later in this chapter.

TABLE 2-7 Exploring Some Common Adjectives

Hebrew	Pronunciation	Translation
הוֹב	tohv	good (MS)
הוֹבָה	toh-vah	good (FS)
הוֹבִים	toh-veem	good (MP)
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