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Hebrew words that appear male but are female



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Moonlight




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 12:39 pm
Is there a place to get full list? When I was in school we had a song....
Even
Aish
....
?
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Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 12:54 pm
even aim eretz be'er beten geder gefen d'yo chatzer cherev kos kaf lashon machat na'al nefesh ir even paam tzipor tzfardeah

Shoutout to Miss C Zwiebel! (dont know her married name)
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Genius  




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:00 pm
Why is it לילה טוב? Why not טובה?
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Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:03 pm
Genius wrote:
Why is it לילה טוב? Why not טובה?


there are words that appear zachar but are nkeivah
laylah mofeis kareis zayis bayis sheirus

thene there are words that are used both ways
aish shemesh machaneh ruach derech
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2cents




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:03 pm
Lol. One of my favorite memories from 6th grade. Our teacher made up a song.... bais Yaakov Baltimore, probably...97-98 school year.
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  Genius




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:04 pm
If Laila is female it should have a female adjective, no?
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Elfrida




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:10 pm
I think a lot depends on how the word chooses to identify. Hiding Hiding Wink
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shabbatiscoming




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:44 pm
There sre SO many exceptions to the rule in hebrew. Soso many. And THAT is the rule Wink
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BH Yom Yom  




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 2:19 pm
אבן ארץ אש באר בטן גדר גפן חרב כוס כף מחט נעל נפש עיר עצם פעם צפור צפרדע שמש - אלו הן נקבה

That’s the version I leaned (although shemesh is sometimes zachar)

And words that look nekeiva but are zachar:
בית זית מוות לילה
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beloved




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jul 21 2024, 3:22 pm
Genius wrote:
If Laila is female it should have a female adjective, no?


לילה is masculine, not feminine.
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zaq  




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Jul 22 2024, 4:09 pm
Genius wrote:
If Laila is female it should have a female adjective, no?


Layla is masculine. Unless it's the name of an American woman named Lila or a Moslem woman, in which case the pronunciation is somewhere between LYEla and LAYla and is feminine.
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  zaq




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Jul 22 2024, 4:10 pm
BH Yom Yom wrote:
אבן ארץ אש באר בטן גדר גפן חרב כוס כף מחט נעל נפש עיר עצם פעם צפור צפרדע שמש - אלו הן נקבה

That’s the version I leaned (although shemesh is sometimes zachar)

And words that look nekeiva but are zachar:
בית זית מוות לילה


Add to that Tzevet.
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  BH Yom Yom  




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Jul 22 2024, 4:13 pm
zaq wrote:
Add to that Tzevet.


צוות as in staff (faculty)?
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TranquilityAndPeace




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Jul 22 2024, 4:25 pm
Aren’t all body parts that come in pairs, Nekaivah?

Like יד, רגל, עין, אוזן….
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LiLIsraeli




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Jul 22 2024, 6:03 pm
BH Yom Yom wrote:
אבן ארץ אש באר בטן גדר גפן חרב כוס כף מחט נעל נפש עיר עצם פעם צפור צפרדע שמש - אלו הן נקבה

That’s the version I leaned (although shemesh is sometimes zachar)

And words that look nekeiva but are zachar:
בית זית מוות לילה


We had a similar song but with a few more words added:
דיו
כיכר
כרס
תבל
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  BH Yom Yom




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Jul 22 2024, 6:14 pm
TranquilityAndPeace wrote:
Aren’t all body parts that come in pairs, Nekaivah?

Like יד, רגל, עין, אוזן….


Oh yes, those too! (Except שדיים, ironically).
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