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[Facts] Re: Hebrew script for possible Mary-related words?
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Ah, thank you very much! :-DBut now you've made me curious about the other pronouns! If it isn't too much trouble, I would like to see them. No biggie if you can't do it right away or anything. :-)As for (hopefully) viewing non-gobbledygook Hebrew, at least in Firefox 2.0.0.6:
1. Go to View
2. Go to Character Encoding
3. Go to More Encodings
4. Go to Middle Eastern
5. Select the Hebrew encoding that works for you--in my case that was Hebrew (Windows-1255)As for typing Hebrew so it doesn't turn gobbledygook in the first place, I don't know. I just cut-pasted words from various sources on the web, and the Hebrew remained intact that way. Sorry!

Miranda
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All right - the other pronouns. (Sorry for the wait; I went to bed.)
All of these suffixes go on a singular male noun - my book, not my books - and I'm adding them onto the word ëìá (celev - dog) because I have no idea how to get a nikkud under an X:My: "-i" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÄé) calbi
Our: "-enu" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÅðåÌ) calbenu
Your:
Singular male: "-cha" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÀêÈ) calbecha
Singular female: "-ech" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÅêÀ ) calbech
Plural male (group with at least one male in it): "-chem" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÀëÆí) calbechem
Plural female (group made entirely of females): "-chen" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÀëÆï) calbechen
His: "-o" (ëÌÇìÀáÌåÉ) calbo
Her: "-ah" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÈäÌ) calbah (the dot in the heh is important - otherwise it would just mean female dog)
Their:
Male: "-am" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÈí) calbam
Female: "-an" (ëÌÇìÀáÌÈï) calbanFor female subjects ending in a ä, the heh turns into a ú and then you add the suffixes above. Her dog = ëÌÇìÀáÌÈúÈäÌWhen the subject is plural, it changes a little too.It looks terribly complicated, doesn't it? It isn't really - all of these words are just a contraction of all the forms of the word shel (belonging to) - sheli (mine), shelo (his), shelah (hers), shelahem (theirs), etc. - with the subjects they refer to. haCelev sheli -> calbi.And yes, everything in Hebrew has a gender. No such word as IT.Noa If you have any more questions, ask.

This message was edited 9/25/2007, 12:51 PM

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Wow, that's cool! Again, thanks so much! :-Da
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