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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:

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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) calban

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For female subjects ending in a ä, the heh turns into a ú and then you add the suffixes above. Her dog = ëÌÇìÀáÌÈúÈäÌ

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When the subject is plural, it changes a little too.

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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.

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And yes, everything in Hebrew has a gender. No such word as IT.

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Noa

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If you have any more questions, ask.

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