Hebrew Grammar - Dagesh (דגש)

Learn the different kinds of dageshes, how they work, and how to tell them apart. Dagesh spotting game at the end!

[@einarengemoen2486]

I have commented it before, but just have to express again how explicit good this teaching is.

[@loveofreedom777]

This is, by far, THE cutest teaching about the Dagesh lene, Dagesh forte, and BeGeD KeFaT... (& then some) .. I have ever seen. There is so much to learn and know about Biblical Hebrew. Very well done!

[@zerotrace000]

Shalom Tim, your videos are on whole different level. Your instruction is clear concise and well thought out. Much respect to you. Please make more videos! We love them.

[@kasey4565]

ditto! This one helped me ALOT! I was majorly confused!

[@angelalane8678]

I had trouble locating the green circle in the game. It also vanished too quickly.

[@rayaanakbaikhambaAllah]

Shalom😅 yatim😝

[@adamcai4815]

This is such a well organized video, the clear structure really makes the explanation memorable.

[@cesargamo4975]

The streets are the ideas of the imagination. The houses are thoughts, the habitants are affections. I see the parents land in light. God is exiled from god itself. Thank for your video, Tim.

[@jesusstudentbrett]

I am here in Jerusalem learning Biblical Hebrew using the spoken method here at Polis and was just asking yesterday someone about Dagesh Lene versus Dagesh Forte... and BaGaD-KaPHaT בגדכפת. Perfect timing... תודא רבה!

[@timmcninch]

That makes me happy! All the best with your studies. I’ve heard good things about Polis! בהצלחה

[@user-of1kq6qt1j]

@@timmcninch מאיפה אתה?

[@hoookedonhebrew8713]

Thank you so much. I wish you could upload as often as possible

[@timmcninch]

Working on it!

[@simeonj.r7453]

@@timmcninch I'm eagerly waiting for new grammatical vidoes. May god bless u bro😊

[@Subfrequenz]

Thanks for all your hard work creating these videos. Really appreciate it.

[@MultiSuperfluous]

So comprehensively explained and yet, in such simplistic terms that you go away having learnt some profound truths. Keep up this fine work!

[@NoJesus.NoLife]

Marvellous! Love the sound of your voice. So relaxing. I'm getting a lot now. Thanks Tim.

[@mariacheetham1476]

Thank you Tim Mcnich. You're simply the best.

[@mei-yingliang1813]

You are the best teacher I've found so far! Thank you and God bless!

[@mariacheetham1476]

Thank you very much. This is brilliant presentation. You're simply the best best. Please upload more.

[@jesusstudentbrett]

Just thinking how grateful I am for your videos... excellent at that, on my knees praying for God's blessing for you and yours Tim McNinch

[@daleknight8971]

You really explained that so good. I'll be watching several times with pin and papper to take notes. Thank you very much.

[@KirbyTank]

By far the best tutorials. Really enjoying your blackboard style, voiceover, speed, and animations. Keep it up! More Hebrew and Greek lessons! 😊

[@Razrrat]

Congratulations Tim. The best Hebrew instruction style I have encountered. I was engrossed and watched it twice. You have a real talent for language instruction - intelligent, clear, well structured and explained but never boring or verbose. You make a listener feel confident that they are getting correct information of a very good quality. Please keep making videos. We love them.

[@lucylucy3125]

Kindly, make more videos! It is very clear and makes great sense! THANK YOU

[@martincortina8936]

Thank you so much Tim, congratulations, you’re the best, seriously!

[@WatsonMbiriri]

Beautiful! Thank you for this.

[@yd8526]

Thank you very much! Barukh Hashem for your videos.

[@henry_dschu]

Brilliantly taught, thanks a lot 😊😊😊

[@abundleofmyrrh]

I’ve just had that aha lightbulb moment! 🥳Thank you sooooo much this is going to help me out tremendously!! Love your teaching style! 😁

[@tonyruiz4738]

I have studied Hebrew primers and it's hard enough to write and even harder identify the similar letters that are above or below the (box). I tried to understand the dagesh, and all it's applications, I finally gave up since I couldn't understand. You nailed it, presenting it in an easy-to-understand format, though it is still difficult. Being bilingual myself (Spanish/English) and having studied Russian and German, it resonates especially with the plosive v. spirant but of course one thing is to intellectualize it, but another thing is to put it in context or actual use. I love learning Hebrew. But it's self-study I would love to learn conversational Hebrew, back in 5778 I visited Israel, and I fell in deeper love with both nation and people. Toda raba!

[@michellekgross5627]

yes. the beged kefet de-spirantization process occurs across several languages and merits its own wikipedia article. v-chica and v-grande in Spanish, the little v--letter/b-(ish) sound at the start of words and the big b.

[@zeevbreiner1021]

I hope you do teach Biblical Hebrew :) your students must love your approach. great editing skills as well. please make more videos about more complicated stuff :) like נפעל when first אות of שורש is גרונית :)

[@paulascantlebury6106]

Very useful explanation. Thank you!

[@ajgalloway2521]

Your video lessons are so clear. Thank you! 🙏🏽

[@timmcninch]

Glad you like them!

[@conchitaholloman5278]

Your awesome in your teachings

[@chorneliusgersonbawias1140]

Thank you very much for you explanation. I love them all your videos

[@capacitacionsr4t]

Hey Tim! I've been teaching myself Hebrew for the past 10 years or so. I feel that I have a lot of knowledge but I needed to organize it. Thanks to your videos I think I'm achieving it. This lesson and the binyanim lesson are my favorites so far. Thanks and keep it up! Shalom!

[@user-co8ho8ll2p]

Thank you. Finding this so helpful

[@876-benyaminisrael9]

This is Fantastic, Love it Love it. Todah Rabah

[@GoodNewsChannelFrpreetam]

שלום אני מהודו. אני לומד עברית. ההוראה שלך ברורה ותרגום לאנגלית. YOur Videos are clear and concise. easy to understand.

[@NhanNguyen-ds3xd]

Thank you TIM for your video making me some move. Shalom again. 👍👍👍👍

[@RevZeeshanSadiq]

beautiful method of teaching

[@univandi]

Thanks, it's very useful. God Bless you

[@mechellespillekom5891]

Wow this was a really great lesson. Thank you 😊

[@OAPerez40]

This video clarified so much for me! Thank you for such a well-presented, coherent lesson. Now, I know how to recognize the vowel sounds much faster.

[@mriostamez]

The best! Thank you.

[@cesargamo4975]

Happy Easter, brother Tim From Spain, Barcelona

[@Mahdi.alkawaz]

Amazing work thank you very much

[@manuelfantoni5262]

Eccellente lezione, Tim. Thanks a lot from Italy!

[@timmcninch]

Prego!

[@zivahbelen5782]

Thank you so much, you are awesome!

[@jackieforget5606]

Hello Tim , Thank-you so much for your lesson on dagesh. I appreciate your excellent pedagogy.:well structured, good memorisation tricks & tips, ample practice by repetition. Your tone of voice is zen and makes pleasant listening. However, I would have liked you to spell out the pronunciation for all the words of the 13 examples in the identification game. Am interested in the meaning and the sounds of each of these words. God bless you.

[@timmcninch]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@yoonpender5661]

i love Hebrew!! Thank you!

[@lucylucy3125]

Thank you! it is perfectly clear.

[@ritaaugustine7871]

Thank you Tim

[@arturwojcieski5042]

Great lesson. Thanks.

[@kentpope3346]

Great teaching. Thank you sir. (smile)

[@DevinAkin]

Tim, you're making my M.Div Hebrew class 10x easier. Cannot thank you enough.

[@timmcninch]

בבקשה!

[@richarddavid6838]

Excellent and interesting presentation. I hv started to learn Hebrew. Ur lessons are very helpful. Thanks. English meaning along with Heb words wd be of further help. Blessings.

[@malka985]

very well explained! thanks

[@geetanjalikumar2455]

Shalom .amazing .

[@yiotatheofanous4489]

Todah Todah Todah...:) Your teaching makes learning seem easy. Very well explained. Todah rabah!

[@timmcninch]

Bevaqqashah!

[@zdoh-RandomHandle]

תודאה ראבאה בואקּאשאה!

[@mayanlogos92]

It seems for me so complicated but I think I'll get it if I'll practice enough I love how you explained that ❤

[@kathleenlang3747]

It’s an excellently organized presentation. He’s going a little fast for me on the game at the end, but I think if I replay the video enough times I’ll become faster!

[@worthshiptv2507]

thank you the LORD bless you

[@SDsc0rch]

love your work :) more! make mooooore!

[@timmcninch]

On it!

[@SDsc0rch]

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[@pearlsfli]

I like the test very much !

[@tonghenghuot1439]

thanks you very much!!

[@judypowell7585]

thank you so much just bearningl

[@mattsadovnikoff1457]

You omitted the dagesh compensative!

[@jesusisthemessaiah2137]

so blessed...

[@MemAlephNun]

thank you!

[@sanjayakumara6584]

Thanks a lot.

[@christopherconey732]

Fantastic. Very clear indeed. Gentle pace for slow learners like me :)

[@mariainesduarte2289]

Amazing!

[@crownedpillar3232]

Great videos, Tim! You are an educator par excellence. I've been to lectures, self-thought by reading hebrew grammars, watching hebrew youtubes, yet none is as good as following yours. I've been watching your videos over & over again for memorization. Please do a complete Hebrew Grammar. God bless you!

[@amaly9348]

Woaw, well teached ! Thxs

[@abdullahkhaili3697]

Shalom Ama Ly Well taught As teach has no such form as Teached

[@amaly9348]

@@abdullahkhaili3697 ooh thxs 😅

[@sridhardevadas2131]

Great teaching and appreciated Sridhar Devadoss India

[@theophonchana5025]

In Begedkefet: Following consonants or sheva: dagesh qal Following vowels: dagesh Hazaq (doubling consonants)

[@NATIONALARBONNE]

Thank you sooo much! I GET IT!!!

[@BIBLICALTHINKER]

Bro please do more videos on Hebrew grammar...

[@sheiladancer52]

I have a question about why you pronounced the sin as a shin in the first word. Just curious. Otherwise; great video! Do you/will you do any conversation?

[@Explorethebook]

Hi Tim, I am studying the Hebrew minyanim of verbs. What books do you recommend I use to make things easy?

[@feltonwright4714]

😮Hello Mr. McMinch, Great videos...would you ever consider creating videos on the subjects of transliteration and syllabification?

[@einarengemoen2486]

Delightful graphic

[@margaritoaguanta9042]

Thanks

[@vidiaugrafree]

Request, please make a song about conjugation of the verb "To Want" (rötzéh)

[@ThanhTran-vj7wt]

i think it is so important

[@ulkeean9685]

תודה

[@Kurd05]

The concept of the Dagesh is also in the Arabic Language, but it’s called “ shadda “ the name for dagesh in Arabic has a dagesh itself! It can also be found in Kurdish, when they double letters but they don’t substitue it with a symbol, we the Kurdish people used to have a dash on the doubles letter. It’s a very important part of both languages.

[@timmcninch]

Technically, the word דָּגֵשׁ in Hebrew also has a dagesh (lene) in the initial dalet!

[@dhemo_ru]

I’m new to this, so are you saying that the vowels marks are not used, and the sounds are understood like in paleo/ancient Hebrew?

[@ERocha-it8bd]

It's Very good

[@imcarolwong2126]

Sorry I'm not a native english speaker, not sure which one is consonant. Can you tell more about that? Is that the first three dageshes only affect the sound of it, but the last dagesh that used in heh, it changes its meaning from "she" to "her"?

[@moimeme3356]

Shalom, Tim! Thanks a million for your fantastic instruction. :) I'm enjoying Hebrew study! Some questions came to mind during your lesson. Why the double names for the dageshim - lene/kal and forte/chazak? Are they all Hebrew words? Is the word "dagesh" related to "dag" (looks like a little fish swimming inside the letter)? While we're on that word, can you explain why Jonah is inside a "dagah" - a female fish but earlier it was a male - a "dag?" Also, maybe a dagesh question, in my siddur, the word "Shabbat" is sometimes shown as "Shavat" - which seems odd. Wouldn't it be one or the other? Love the games too - it's exciting to get the answers right. :) Thanks again, and blessings to you!

[@user-vc5oc5yi4q]

I hope you see this answer: 1. cal in Hebrew means easy, hazak in Hebrew means strong. 2. dagush in Hebrew means full, I guess this is the origin of the word dagesh. 3. According to Jewish tradition, a yuna was first inside a male fish, and then moved into the intestine of a female fish. 4. Shabbat is the seventh day of the week, shavat is the verb to rest, in Hebrew they write the same thing.

[@moimeme3356]

Got it - thanks!

[@megersabayisa4623]

#Thank you very much I am almost mastering hebrew letter the next is to communicate and find friend in israel.

[@daboffey]

I've been taught that a dagesh in a begedkephet letter, following a shewa, depends upon the sort of shewa, whether it is voiced or silent. Is this wrong?

[@timmcninch]

Following a shewa, a begedkefet with a dagesh will always be a dagesh qal (lene). A dagesh hazak (forte) needs to follow a short vowel, not a shewa. And I might be wrong, but I can’t think of a scenario where a begedkefet with a dagesh would follow a vocal shewa. After a vocal shewa, begedkefets are usually (I think always) aspirated.

[@RepairtheBreach5812]

Is there a book that has all this information in it?

[@codyandrewwynn]

Hey, man, how long did it take you to learn Hebrew at a conversational level? I'm studying for my M.Div., and I find the Hebrew language much more fascinating than Koine Greek.

[@sergeibatiuk3468]

Mind blowing but useful

[@asiyabashir8353]

Hello Is r pronounced as g sound in Hebrew

[@DorienTalks]

As an explanation, Pei, Bet, Vav, Tav, and Kaf have dageshes for pronounciation as of Bet is Vet without a dagesh, Pei is Fei in its final form, and without the dagesh, Vav has 2 prononciations with the dagesh over and in the middle of the letter. Tav has a dagesh but has the same pronounciation, and Kaf is Khaf without the dagesh in the middle. So these letters consisting in this paragraph would never be able to double either as the 5 letters.

[@papamedilmamamedil7949]

Todah rabah

[@haticekorkmaz7849]

Toda raba.

[@mp6471]

Thank you so much for the video, but at 5:32 you made a mistake. Dalet without qal dagesh isn't pronounced that way

[@tehillahmusicministries7008]

Interesting! What blackboard program or software are you using? Would love to use it for my music teaching. Thanks.

[@timmcninch]

For these, I'm actually using the animation features of Apple's Keynote presentation software.

[@nraelserutluc8669]

J-2-LT U knw, ty x100. the tutorial m&G are lit...

[@timmcninch]

TYSM

[@eduardogoiii1000]

Good evening sir. I just want to ask you about the meaning of that two curve signs on top of Vav letter יְהוָ֞ה? It's almost look like a letter c, what does it mean. I don't want you to read the whole word or Shema but only the letter Vav and that 2 curves on top. I'm hoping for your reply. Thank you.

[@timmcninch]

That is a cantillation mark. There are several of them. They mark the accented syllable of a word, help mark the structure of a sentence, and are often read by cantors as indicators of musical tones/patterns.

[@aliciabrock4444]

Question , if these originally didnt have dots or anything else why was this changed ?

[@timmcninch]

Due to persecution and the pressures of cultural assimilation, fewer and fewer Jews in the first centuries of the common era spoke Hebrew as a native language (taking the languages of their homes in diaspora). So medieval Jewish scribes developed the dots as a kind of pronunciation code for those who needed a bit of help with the consonants-only text. Dagesh was one of those dots to help clarify oral pronunciation. It helped the language survive for hundreds of years until the revival of Hebrew as a native language in the early 20th century.

[@davidbrewer9030]

How would one represent a doubled consonant that already has a dagesh? Would it go to the top left of the consonant? If you have the word "rabbi", would the "b" have three dageshim? - One showing the "b" pronunciation instead of the "v", one showing the doubling, and one as the combination of a dagesh and yod for the "ee" sound? I know that does not sound right, but I wondered how one would show all three elements.

[@timmcninch]

The bet in rabbi only has one dagesh (רַבִּי). This involves some more complex rules about syllables... but a letter can not have both kinds of dagesh. If both rules apply, the single dagesh signals them both. (The "ee" sound is also a dot, but it is a vowel marker below the letter [called a hiriq], not a dagesh.)

[@davidbrewer9030]

@@timmcninch Interesting, thank you.