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How similar is Hebrew grammar to English grammar?

Sana - 2009-09-30 22:45:44 - Languages

Also is Hebrew grammar less complicated to learn, or harder, than English grammar?

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1) Hebrew and English are relatively remote and have little in common, yet they share ~some~ features that were either borrowed from other languages or were simply developed in both languages independently. One similarity that I can think of is that both languages tend to use the word order of SVO (subject-verb-object) in modern speech. 2) Hebrew grammar is regarded by many as harder to learn, but in fact it depends on your pervious linguistic skills. Arabic speakers find Hebrew grammar much easier as it's very similar to Arabic while German speakers find English grammar easier. Some differences: *In Hebrew, nouns are either masculine or feminine, their matching adjectives must agree with them in quantity and gender * Verbs are conjugated by tense, person and gender * Verbs are created by placing the root letters in seven given moulds called Binyanim (buildings) * There are only 3 tenses in Hebrew (past, present and future), the present tense is in fact a tense of participles * Hebrew uses noun constructs a lot (a phenomena unique to Semitic languages) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_grammar

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NOT AT ALL! Like, the verbs not only need to be conjugated, but unlike French, German, etc., there are different forms for He and She. many words are all put together in one...as in, the, it's just a letter, so is from, with, and, they are prefixes. And there are different suffixes for all sorts of stuff. Complicated? No more than any other language. Once you get the alphabet down, the rest is fairly easy. I don't know...when I learned it, we didn't do the verb charts that worked so well for me in the European languages. I think if we had, I'd remember more than I do. Charts work for me.

1) Hebrew and English are relatively remote and have little in common, yet they share ~some~ features that were either borrowed from other languages or were simply developed in both languages independently. One similarity that I can think of is that both languages tend to use the word order of SVO (subject-verb-object) in modern speech. 2) Hebrew grammar is regarded by many as harder to learn, but in fact it depends on your pervious linguistic skills. Arabic speakers find Hebrew grammar much easier as it's very similar to Arabic while German speakers find English grammar easier. Some differences: *In Hebrew, nouns are either masculine or feminine, their matching adjectives must agree with them in quantity and gender * Verbs are conjugated by tense, person and gender * Verbs are created by placing the root letters in seven given moulds called Binyanim (buildings) * There are only 3 tenses in Hebrew (past, present and future), the present tense is in fact a tense of participles * Hebrew uses noun constructs a lot (a phenomena unique to Semitic languages) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_grammar