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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Level OneExample: ‘good’Fem. sing.Masc. pl.Fem. pl. * Changes in nikkud can be ignored, except where there is also a change inpronunciation.2 There are a vast number of adjectives with the suffix either createdout of nouns by adding or based on some international word (with taking the place of -ic, -ical, etc.). These, too, simply add the followingendings:Examples: ‘religious’, ‘physical’Fem. sing.Masc. pl. Fem. pl. Many adjectives with - are foreign loans; as if to show this fact, <strong>Hebrew</strong>keeps the stress on the base of the word rather than on the ending. Hence(marking stress by ): , , ,Further examples:Like : ‘wonderful’, ‘loyal’, ‘warm’, ‘stable’, ‘bad’,‘first’ ‘strong’,14LikeForeignisms: : ‘marine’, ‘economic’, ‘problematic’ ‘communist’, ‘chemical’, ‘preliminary’,‘normal’

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