Hebrew For Beginners

Review the Hebrew alphabet with clear letter-by-letter guidance, comparing print and script forms, vowel notes, and final letter variants, supported by two printable practice PDFs.

Learn how Hebrew vowels, as markings under letters, create sounds such as r, a, e, o, and oo, how to represent them, and how stop marks indicate no sound.

Explore Hebrew nouns and gender, and learn that feminine nouns end with hei or tav and masculine plurals use yud and mem, with feminine plurals ending in ot.

Learn the vocabulary of basic Hebrew nouns, practice pronunciation, and write the words in your notebook, using examples like yom and yamim, sefer and sefarim.

Explore how Hebrew adjectives describe nouns by agreeing in gender and number, forming four forms for male singular, female singular, male plural, and female plural.

Explore Hebrew adjective agreement with examples like tov, ra, gadol, and katan, showing masculine and feminine forms in singular and plural.

Repeat pronunciation and practice writing basic adjectives in your notebook, including gadol, gedola, gedolim, gedolot, and ketana, with examples like tove and tovim.

Discover how Hebrew nouns precede adjectives and must agree in gender and number, illustrated by examples like kefir tov, ooga tova, and their plural forms.

Explain the Hebrew definite article ha and how to attach it to nouns with ha sefer the book, and how vav links with and; introduce shay as that and when.

Hebrew lacks a present tense for 'to be,' so is and are appear in noun-adjective phrases with ha, with article matching or mismatch creating sentences.

Explore nominal clauses by showing how nouns and adjectives with or without the definite article form sentences, and how article mismatch can alter meaning, using Hebrew examples.

Explore Hebrew pronouns and the first, second, and third person in singular and plural, including ani, ata, at, anachnu, atem, aten, hem, and hen, with gendered noun reference.

Explore Hebrew question words like ma, lama, me, matai, and kama, covering what, why, who, when, and how much or how many, plus which. Note gendered forms and plural olu.

Learn to combine prepositions with question words, with examples like where are you from and from Haifa, Israel, and Hebrew pronoun usage.

Explore how prepositions connect verbs and nouns to show relations like to, in, and from. See Hebrew forms such as li, beh, and mi and how they attach to words.

Discover how Hebrew prepositions fuse with the definite article ha to form la and ba, with mi ha for from the; ma cannot fuse with ha.