how to say “handwriting” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]אוֹתִיּוֹת כְּתָב
You may have heard that Hebrew has a 22-letter alphabet. That’s true, but there are two caveats:
- Five of those letters have a slightly different form – in most cases an elongated form – when appearing at the end of a word – כ-ך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /], [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]מ-ם, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]נ-ן, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]פ-ף, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]צ-ץ.
- Many letters in print look somewhat different from their counterparts in cursive script (here’s a page where you can learn to handwrite in Hebrew).
The Hebrew expression for the cursive alphabet is אותיות כתב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /] – literally, written letters.
In context:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]בעברית, אותיות כתב נראות שונה מאותיות דפוס.
In Hebrew, cursive letters look different from printed letters.
