Learn how one can know if a word is written with the letter ט or ת? with ק or ּכ? with ב or ו? with ֹש or ס
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| Hi everybody! Yana here. Welcome to Ask a Teacher where I’ll answer some of your most common Hebrew questions. |
| The question for this lesson is… |
| How can one know if a word is written with the letter ט or ת? with ק or ּכ? with ב or ו? with ֹש or ס? and why are they needed if they represent the same sounds? |
| Like some of the other questions I’ve answered on Ask a Teacher, the confusion here is due, in part, to the long history of the Hebrew language. |
| In ancient Hebrew, each one of these letters stood for a different sound. |
| For example |
| מוֹעֲדִים - Dates, Specific times, |
| אָנֹכִי - I, me |
| As time went on, though, this distinction became less important, and each one of these pairs came to have more or less the same sound. |
| So, the letters ט or ת came to have the T sound, ק or ּכ, the K sound, and ב and ו, the V sound, and ש and ס, the S sound. |
| Because this amounts to a simple spelling rule, there is no real shortcut to learning, besides memorizing words as they come up. You'll get the hang of it soon, though. |
| How was it? Pretty interesting right? |
| Do you have any more questions? Leave them in the comments below and I’ll try to answer them! |
| lehitraot! |
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