Thank you so much! Very clear for a new Hebrew learner. I didn’t know the hay (sorry, spelling) at the end of a word indicated a feminine noun. I wish I had a couple of worksheets to firm these concepts up.
Plural in Hebrew are not done with postfix. Postfix and Prefix are Indo Europe concept. Hebrew is a template language, in which we place the 3 (or 2 or 4) sound letters into a template. The plural follow the same concept. In singular אֶרֶץ, In Genetive אַרְצְךָ In Plural אַרְצוֹת Notice that the word is changing not just the suffix.
@@dfacedagame On English for example you start with a word 'converse' And than you add a postfix, like 'tion' and you get a new word 'conversation' (yes the 'e' become 'a', but it is on the end of the word). In Hebrew it is not sufficient to add a postfix, but all word may changed. If i would use the example you would get something like 'cinvarsition'. And yes, Hebrew does that. So it is not about adding a postfix, but on taking the word root letters like c,n,v,r and put them in a new template for plurals. And yes Hebrew do have templates for plural. The only true part is the all Hebrew templates for plural always end with 'ים' or 'ות', so it does looks like postfix. But understanding the difference does help understanding How Hebrew is construct. And yes 'ים' is usually used with male words, but sometime you would see it with female words. Understanding that Hebrew works with templates and NOT with postfix does explain how could it be.
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Thank you so much! Very clear for a new Hebrew learner. I didn’t know the hay (sorry, spelling) at the end of a word indicated a feminine noun. I wish I had a couple of worksheets to firm these concepts up.
Thank you so much for the clear explanation ! ❤
Interesting about the word 'father.' How is feminine and masculine determined?
Thank you so much brother
Louis from israel
thank you appreciated
Plural in Hebrew are not done with postfix. Postfix and Prefix are Indo Europe concept.
Hebrew is a template language, in which we place the 3 (or 2 or 4) sound letters into a template.
The plural follow the same concept.
In singular אֶרֶץ, In Genetive אַרְצְךָ In Plural אַרְצוֹת
Notice that the word is changing not just the suffix.
Your comment doesn’t make sense. The suffix is part of the word. I don’t get, what your trying to say.
@@dfacedagame
On English for example you start with a word 'converse'
And than you add a postfix, like 'tion' and you get a new word 'conversation' (yes the 'e' become 'a', but it is on the end of the word).
In Hebrew it is not sufficient to add a postfix, but all word may changed.
If i would use the example you would get something like 'cinvarsition'.
And yes, Hebrew does that. So it is not about adding a postfix, but on taking the word root letters like c,n,v,r and put them in a new template for plurals. And yes Hebrew do have templates for plural.
The only true part is the all Hebrew templates for plural always end with 'ים' or 'ות', so it does looks like postfix. But understanding the difference does help understanding How Hebrew is construct.
And yes 'ים' is usually used with male words, but sometime you would see it with female words.
Understanding that Hebrew works with templates and NOT with postfix does explain how could it be.