A group of adjectives has the ending -i :
Adjectives with the male ending –i, female –it often denote the affiliation to a nation or a religion. The female ending –it also designates a language.
noun or adjective | noun or adjective m | language: adjective f | ||
a German, German | germani | גרמני | germanit | גרמנית |
an Englishman, English | angli | אנגלי | anglit | אנגלית |
a Russian, Russian | rusi | רוסי | rusit | רוסית |
an Arab, Arabic | aravi | ערבי | aravit | ערבית |
a Hebrew, Hebrew | ivri | עברי | ivrit | עברית |
noun female | country (different stress) | |||
a German | germaniah | germania | גרמניה | |
an Englishwoman | angliah | anglia | אנגליה | |
a Russian | rusiah | rusia | רוסיה | |
Note: | ||||
an Arab f | araviah | ערביה | ||
a Jewess | yehudiah | יהודיה | ||
a Christian f | nozriah | נוצריה | (lit. Nazerene) |
Also nouns can become adjectives with the ending -i
nouns | adjective | |||||
money | kesef | כסף | financial | kaspi | כספי | |
destiny, fate | goral | גורל | fateful | gorali | גורלי | |
world | olam | עולם | world | olami | עולמי |
and finally foreign words end in –i – in Hebrew: milim lo’aziot – not-asian words, stressed on the next to last syllable.
objective | obyektivi | אוביקטיבי |
real | re’ali | ריאלי |
konstruktiv | konstruktivi | קונסטרוקטיבי |