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--- gutturals [2024/10/22 08:35] – jeffd
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 ====== Guttural Letters ======
-[[alef]], [[heh]], [[khet]], [[eyin]], and [[resh]]
+<WRAP right box centeralign round 50%>
+<wrap big :he>א ה ח ע / ר</wrap>
+</WRAP>
-Introduced in [[Lesson 5]]
+[[alef]], [[heh]], [[khet]], [[eyin]], and sometimes [[resh]]
-===== Compensatory Lengthening =====
+See: [[placement]].
-When the rules of grammar would indicate that one of these letters would normally take a [[dagesh forte]], they reject the [[dagesh forte]] and cause compensatory lengthening of the vowel in the preceding syllable instead.
+Introduced in [[Lesson 5]]
-For instance, the word for the earth or ground, "eretz", starts with alef.  If we want to add the definite article to it, which is normally [[heh]] followed by a [[short a vowel]], since the alef rejects the dagesh, the [[heh]] instead gets a [[long a vowel]].  In this case, it also lengthens the vowel on the alef itself, so instead of haEretz the word becomes ha-Aretz.
+Learn about [[Compensatory Lengthening]]