Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

3 Some exceptions:Pronunciationrules ‘university’, ‘internet’, ‘telephone’, ‘microphone’In any event, the stress in foreign words rarely falls on a plural or otherinflectional ending, hence: - ,, , , , Stress tends to fall on the syllable before last in children’s words, as wellas in many given names and old-time Israeli localities: marbles grandmother (pl.: ) Moshe Rivka Yafa Ramle Rehovot ZichronMost adjectives, too, are stressed on the final syllable. The majorexception: when a foreign-sourced adjective ends in -i, this -i is notstressed, thus: ‘liberal’, ‘practical’, ‘democratic’, ‘naive’, ‘Japanese’, -‘New Yorker’The same happens when -i is added to most names of towns in Israel andthe region: , , , , - But note that for these purposes, the names of most major foreignnationalities that were on the Jewish ‘Radar screen’ in the early twentiethcentury do stress a final -i, e.g. ‘German’, ‘English’, ‘French’, ‘Russian’, ‘Egyptian’, ‘Arab’67