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====== Dagesh Forte ======
===== The Strong (Doubling) Dagesh =====

See [[dagesh|Types of Dagesh]].

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<wrap big :he>בּגּדּזּטּיּכּלּמּ

נּסּפּצּקּרּשּתּ</wrap>
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===== In Non-Guttural Letters =====

The **Dagesh Ḥazaq** (Hebrew), "Strong Dagesh", "Doubling Dagesh", or **Dagesh Forte** (Latin, more commonly used in grammars) is used to indicate doubling (gemination) of a consonant, which also means that it form the ending of a closed syllable with the preceding consonant and vowel, in addition to acting as the beginning a new syllable.

Letters which can take a Dagesh Forte include any of the non-final (non-[[sofit]]) BGDKPRT letters (but rarely Resh, as it is often treated as a guttural), and most of the other (non-[[sofit]]) letters as well:

[[zeyin]], [[tet]], [[yod]], [[lamed]], [[mem]], [[nun]], [[samek]], [[tsadi]], [[qof]], [[shin]].

A **Dagesh Forte** can only exist in a medial position; it cannot begin or end a word.

When [[transliteration|transliterating]] a letter with a Dagesh Forte, it should be written twice.

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<wrap big :he>א ה ח ע ר</wrap>
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===== In Guttural Letters? =====

Guttural letters cannot take a **Dagesh Forte**.  They cannot be doubled.  The letter [[resh]] has some exceptions to this, as it isn't fully treated as a guttural.

Instead of takin a Dagesh, circumstances that would call for this cause [[compensatory lengthening]] to occur instead.