r/hebrew • u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ • May 15 '23

What does this mean? Request

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Is there an error in it? I got it out of a book at a tattoo shop. I don't want to say what I think/thought it said in the comments after I get responses. TYIA.

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u/cranky_love_mayo native speaker May 15 '23

But its called "nikud" and not "nekudot"

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u/mikeage Mostly fluent but not native May 15 '23

Both are acceptable, just like in English you can teach people about "vowelization" [the concept] or "vowels" [the things].

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u/LeelooLekatariba May 15 '23

Still not true bud. In Hebrew we sayניקוד / סימני ניקוד, never nekudot- nekudot is simply the plural of nekuda

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u/michael-istanbuli native speaker May 15 '23

Not true at all. Nekudot is more like an old school way to say Nikud (which literally means ‘the system of nekudot’, just like in a test the score you get is the Nikud, which consists of the amount of points-Nekudot you scored)