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[edit] Romanizations

Note: this is still up for discussion — see Wiktionary talk:About Hebrew#Romanization — and should not be regarded as policy.

Wherever there is a link to a Hebrew entry, a romanization should be included.
All romanizations should be wrapped in {{romanization of Hebrew}} (q.v.), which wraps its contents in parentheses. {{he-translation}}, {{he-link}}, and other such templates may use {{romanization of Hebrew}} internally.
Missing romanizations should be indicated using {{romanization of Hebrew}} with no argument; in this case, it tags its article with Category:Entries missing romanizations of Hebrew.
The letters are romanized as follows:

letter	romanization	notes
א	(')	omit word-final א, except optionally¹	ל	l
ב	b/v	b when with dagesh, v when without	מ,ם	m
ג	g	optionally¹ gh when without dagesh	נ,ן	n
ד	d	optionally¹ dh when without dagesh	ס	s
ה	(h)	omit word-final ה, except when with mapik	ע	(')	optionally¹ `; omit word-final '
ו	w	see below for ו as vowel marker	פ,ף	p/f	p when with dagesh, f when without
ז	z		צ,ץ	ts	optionally¹ TS
ח	kh	optionally¹ ḥ	ק	k	optionally¹ Q
ט	t	optionally¹ T	ר	r
י	y/i	i when the latter part of a diphthong, y elsewhere; see below for י as vowel marker	שׁ	s(h)	sh when shin, s when sin
כ,ך	k/kh	k when with dagesh, kh when without	ת	t	optionally¹ th when without dagesh

¹ used when it is particularly important to represent a form of Hebrew in which the sound is distinguished, or in the case of צ, a form in which emphatic consonants are emphasized (whether glottally or pharyngeally).
Dagesh khazak is optionally (as described above) indicated by doubling the letter. In the case of שּׁ and צּ, this produces shsh and TSTS.
Vowels are romanized as follows:

vowel	romanization	notes
בְ	(')	an apostrophe when na`, omitted when nakh or when adjacent to א or ע
בֱ, בֶ, בֵ	e
בֲ, בַ, בָי	a
בָ	a/o	a when gadol, o when katan
בֳ, בֹ, בוֹ	o
בִ, בִי	i
בֻ, בוּ	u

The position of the stress may be indicated using an acute accent on the main vowel of the stressed syllable (á, é, í, ó, ú).

The contents of the above sections are still up for discussion, and should not be considered "decided".
Where to use ktiv khaser and where to use ktiv maleh (e.g. for diber, where דבר, and where דיבר).^{[discuss this]}
Where to supply vowel signs.^{[discuss this]}
Whether roots warrant separate treatment from the words formed from them, and if so, what this treatment should include.^{[discuss this]}
How to supply conjugations of verbs, declensions of nouns and adjectives, and pronoun-including forms of prepositions.^{[discuss this]}
Where to treat different Hebrews (e.g. Classical Hebrew, Standard/Modern/Israeli Hebrew) as different languages, and where to treat them as different forms of one language.

Please discuss on the talk-page (Wiktionary talk:About Hebrew)!

The community's decision was to exclude most words that are simply one or more prefixes plus a base word.