Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Level One ~ evening ~ part ~ rope ~ cedarA small group of feminine nouns behaves rather like segolates, e.g.: - layer - tear - dressd The plural of nouns ending in We have just seen that the plural of feminine nouns is formed by firstdropping the and then adding , thus .Feminine nouns, too, form their plural by dropping but then add. Thus: store agencye The feminine of nouns denoting people, e.g. ‘teacher’Virtually all nouns denoting people have a masculine and a feminine form,e.g. ~male teacher ~ female teacher ~male star ~ female starThe form of the feminine largely depends on the form of the masculine.As a rough rule:1 Nouns of the or or type (see 7(a–c)) take :12 woman lecturer little girl woman neighbor