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Hebrew alphabet and characters

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Hebrew characters:

Hebrew characters

Hebrew grammar rules

Nouns

In Hebrew, nouns are either masculine or feminine (or both). Number can be singular, plural or dual.

Grammatical relations are expressed by adding prefixes and suffixes to the word’s root. To express possession or to mark a direct object, prepositions are used.

Adjectives agree with nouns in number and gender.

Verbs

Hebrew formatting rules

Date formats

First day of the week	Sunday
Working days	Sunday to Thursday
Short date format	d/MM/yyyy
	e.g. 24/03/2016
Long date format	yyyy MMMMב d dddd
	e.g. 2016 יום חמישי 24 במרץ

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000, not 2000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three using comma
	e.g. 20,000,000.50, not 20 000 000,50
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 MB, not 1MB 39 ˚C, not 39˚C 10 %, not 10%
Hebrew currency name	new Israeli Shekel
Currency symbol	₪
Currency symbol position	located before the number, preceded by a space
	e.g. ₪ 100.50 / ₪ 100,000,000.00

Hebrew capitalisation usage

Use of capitalisation

This section does not apply to Hebrew.

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