![]() This process came to be known as the Masorah (tradition). Don't let this nomenclature intimidate you: in the Scriptures, accented syllables are usually identified with one or more accent marks (see below).Ä«etween the 7th and 9th centuries A.D, a group of Jewish scribes called the Masoretes added vowel signs ( nikkudot), cantillation symbols and accent marks ( ta'amim) to the text. The "tonic" syllable is the syllable that receives the stress or accent the "pretonic" syllable is the syllable before the tonic syllable, and the "propretonic" syllable is the syllable before the pretonic. Some Hebrew grammars identify syllables according to the following scheme: In the vocabulary sections of the units, I will indicate non-standard accents by using the symbol "<" above the accented syllable: ![]() ![]() However, some words (segolate nouns, furtive patach nouns, certain verb forms) accent the next to last syllable. Most Hebrew words are generally accented on the last syllable of the word:
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