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J-Learner
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J-Learner wrote:

Sounds changes at the start of words are soemthing strange for me but I am surely getting the hang of it. When something is prefixed some consonants change. Surely English may do this but it is not a regular thing like in Hebrew. It seems almost accidental in English but very deliberate in Hebrew.

beyt sefer = school (book house)
b'veyt hasefer = in the school

J-Learner wrote:

kitah = class/year/grade

b'Xitah * = in'year *(ordinal number)

As I mentioned in the other thread Israelis tend not to make these complicated adjustments and in everyday spoken language you'll hear "bebet asefer" and "bekita".

J-Learner wrote:

(even the shortening from bayit (house) to beyt is strange hahaha)

This is what's called 'smichut' and it's the bane of every Hebrew learner. Luckily it's not used in spoken language so much

J-Learner wrote:

What is interesting is that in those two words the letters that change are letters that are pronounced differently when they do or do not have the dots (nikudot).

b/v
k/X

The other letter that does this:
פּ P > פ F

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