Verse:Tdūrzů/Hebrew: Difference between revisions

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==Grammar==

Modern Hebrew no longer observes the distinction between masculine plural and feminine plural pronouns, phonetically or orthographically (an edge case remains in the numeral + pronoun complexes שנינו/שתינו ''šnếnu/štếnu'' 'we two (m/f)', שניכם/שתיכם ''šnếchę/štếchę'' 'you two (m/f)' and שניהם/שתיהם ''šnếhę/štếhę'' 'they two (m/f)'). Gender in plural remains almost exclusively in nouns, adjectives, and the (participial) present tense, and numerals. Hence הלכתם (''holáchtę'' 'y'all went'); אתם הולכים\הולכות (''atę hølchį́/hølchǿs'' 'y'all go' (mp/fp)).

==Deviation from "correct" speech==

Many normative phonetic alterations and grammar rules are not followed in spontaneous speech. To the errors normally committed by real-world Hebrew speakers add:

*The definite article is invariably [(h)ɐ], contra [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%94%D6%BE prescriptivist Hebrew].

==Sample==

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 ==Grammar==
 Modern Hebrew no longer observes the distinction between masculine plural and feminine plural pronouns, phonetically or orthographically (an edge case remains in the numeral + pronoun complexes שנינו/שתינו ''šnếnu/štếnu'' 'we two (m/f)', שניכם/שתיכם ''šnếchę/štếchę'' 'you two (m/f)' and שניהם/שתיהם ''šnếhę/štếhę'' 'they two (m/f)'). Gender in plural remains almost exclusively in nouns, adjectives, and the (participial) present tense, and numerals. Hence הלכתם (''holáchtę'' 'y'all went'); אתם הולכים\הולכות (''atę hølchí&#808;/hølchǿs'' 'y'all go' (mp/fp)).
+==Deviation from "correct" speech==
+Many normative phonetic alterations and grammar rules are not followed in spontaneous speech. To the errors normally committed by real-world Hebrew speakers add:
+*The definite article is invariably [(h)ɐ], contra [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%94%D6%BE prescriptivist Hebrew].
 ==Sample==