עברית
Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Hebrew is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Hebrew involves.
Lingo7 does not read Hebrew yet: the app has no Hebrew dictionary, audio or books, and its reader still has to be mirrored for right-to-left text. Hebrew is on the shortlist of languages to add. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Hebrew is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Hebrew would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: Israel; Jewish communities worldwide
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters, all consonants, written right to left with no capital letters. Five of them take a different shape at the end of a word (כ מ נ פ צ become ך ם ן ף ץ), which helps a reader see where words stop. Print uses the square script, but handwriting uses a cursive whose letters look quite different, so handwritten notes and signs mean learning a second set of shapes.
Everyday texts leave out the vowel points and make up for part of it with extra letters: in the full spelling (ktiv male) used by newspapers and books, ו and י often stand for o, u and i. Short words attach to the next word as its first letter: ה (the), ו (and), ב (in), ל (to), מ (from), ש (that) and כ (like). So והבית is "and the house", and a lookup often starts by stripping one or two letters off the front.
Two small marks show up inside words. Gershayim (״) mark acronyms, such as צה״ל for the Israel Defense Forces, and numbers written with letters, as in Hebrew calendar dates. A single geresh (׳) after a letter writes sounds found in loanwords: ג׳ is j, ז׳ is zh and צ׳ is ch.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Hebrew needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Hebrew is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Hebrew dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Hebrew book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Hebrew launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
Usually because a prefix is attached to it. The, and, in, to, from, that and like are single letters written onto the next word, so והבית has to be looked up as בית (house). Verbs are listed under the past-tense "he" form, such as כתב (he wrote), not under the infinitive.
A double mark before the last letter (gershayim) shows an acronym, as in צה״ל, or a number written in letters, as in י״ח for 18. A single mark (geresh) changes the sound of a letter in loanwords, so ג׳ירפה (giraffe) starts with j.