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Hebrew Vowel Points
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| אַ | Patach - "ah" as in father. |
| אֶ | Segol - "e" as in elephant. |
| אְ | Shva - "ih" or silent |
| אֻ | Kubutz. "oo" (like choo-choo) |
| אָ | Kamatz - "ah" as in father. |
| ׂאֹ | Hholam. This vowel is a dot which appears at the top and just to the left of the letter instead of beneath it and is pronounced "o" as in open. |
| אִ | Hhireq - "i" as in machine. |
| אוּ | Shuruk. The dot in the "vav" "oo" (like choo-choo). The "vav" is silent. |
| אוֹ | "oh" |
| אֵ׳ | "ey" (like hey) |
| אַי | "ay" (like hay) |
| אֲ | Hataf Patach. This is a combination of the Shva and the Patach. The vowel works the same as the "shva" with a pronunciation of "a" as in father. "ah" |
| אֱ | Hataf Segol. This vowel is a combination of the Segol and Sheva vowels. This vowel is pronounced "eh" as in elephant, but it is pronounced very softly. "eh" |
| אֳ | Hataf-kamats - Compound Shewa (u-class) - Always vocal - Abrupt, short "ah" sound |
| אִי | "ee" |
| When is the אְ "ih"? | "ih" at the beginning of a word "ih" when it is the second of two shewa in a row |
| The three letters used as vowel markers are ____? | ן י ה • Vav, Yod, and Hey |
| Under the first consonant of a word, the shewa is ____. | Vocal |
| Under the final consonant of a word, the shewa is ____. | Silent |
| If it's in the middle of a word and after a long vowel, the shewa is ____. | Vocal |
| If it's in the middle of a word and after a short vowel, the shewa is ____. | Silent |
| Double shewa at the beginning of a word is ____. | Impossible |
| Double shewa at the end of the word is ____. | Silent |
| If double shewa is in the middle of a word, The first shewa is ____ and the second shewa is ____. | Silent - Vocal |
| Hebrew vowels are called ____. | Nikkud |
| The three kinds of dots that appear in letters are: ____, ____, and ____? | Dagesh Lene, Dagesh Forte, and Mappiq |
| The Dagesh Lene letters are...? (6 of them) and the Mnemonic is...? | בּגּדּכּפּתּ - Bet, Gimel, Dalet, Kof, Pe, Tav BeGaD KePhaT |
| The Dagesh Lene never follows a ____? | Vowel |
| The Dagesh Forte is used to mark the presence of a doubled ____? | Consonant |
| If a dot appears in a letter that is not a BeGaD KePhaT letter, it must be a ____? | Dagesh Forte (Unless it's a mappiq) |
| The dot after a vowel sound is a ____? | Dagesh Forte |
| The dot after a Shewa (or other vowel) is a ____? | Dagesh Lene |
| The ____ is used to indicate that a ה at the end of a word is a true consonant rather than a vowel marker | Mappiq - הּ - Pronounced with slight aspiration so that the consonant is noticeable |
| The guttural letters are: (4 + 1) | ר & א ,ה ,ח ,ע |
| Vowel markers always have ____ with the vowels they represent. | Affinity |
| Every Hebrew consonant has ____, and only ____, vowel notation | One, one |
| When א carries a vowel, it functions as a ____? | Consonant |
| אֵ | Tsere - "e" as in they |
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