anyone around I have a question

about translation my book says that pesach is the translation of passover?

how can I translate from passover -> to pesach?

meaning is the the term pesach in yiddish and then translated backwards to english or something else entirely?

Pesach is Hebrew.

so using google translate I type in passover and it outputs

חג פסח

for hebrew

how do I convert חג פסח to pesach

חג means "holiday"

It is the holiday of Pesach.

Which in English is called Passover.

Because the Hebrew word פסח on its own does not technically connote anything about a holiday.

thank you. so is pesach based on pronunciation?

oh I see it

Pesach would be a standard pronunciation of פסח.

thank you so let's say I want to determine dog in hebrew

it appears it would be cur

Dog is כלב.

Kelev.

okay how did you do that

what website

google translate doesn't ouput kelev

It does for me:

interesting thank you

so I just need to learn hebrew I think

Is there a easy pronounceable way to convert כלב to kelev

Google translate is reasonably accurate for individual words. When you start putting in entire sentences it often messes things up.

@William You just have to be able to read Hebrew.

something like mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/32148/…

@William But that's using all one language. With Hebrew it needs to be transliterated into Latin characters.

true but that shouldn't be to hard

I mean I guess I could get a hebrew dictionary

I don't think Hebrew dictionaries generally provide transliterations.

:'(

thank you so much for the help I think I'm going to have to create my own translation tool with lots of studying

1st step I guess try to learn hebrew

bam here we go

alittlehebrew.com/transliterate

Feel free to ask here anytime.

transliterations

@William It doesn't seem so accurate from what I just tested.

yeah I'm laughing after tyring to use it

voice output is available for hebrew on google translate :(

its really hard to learn jewish custom coming from well any other religion

@Alex Though it's better if you add nekudot.

@William Which are you coming from?

@Alex my parents are Protestant Christian. The pagan ideologies wrapped up in the religion make it well such I never really believed it.

Jewish traditions are slightly crazy but at least its truly monotheistic(christianity doesn't count in my opinion) and the concept of the messiah isn't well this crazy person

@Dr.Shmuel From what I can tell, it seems that there's been a whopping 55 questions answered as a part of this challenge (as of posting). Does anyone have statistics on frequency of answers being posted?

I mean, in general. 55 answers seems incredibly high for a regular four-day period. Anyone know what the average is for the past, say, year?

@DonielF weekly averages since Jan 1 last year:

There's probably a SEDE query already.

@William welcome. Yes, the word you want is "transliterate" (or transliteration), which is the process of representing pronunciation from one language in the alphabet of another. It's not specific to Hebrew; you'd also use transliteration to show (in English characters) how to pronounce Russian or Greek, for example.

@MonicaCellio whats that dip to zero? Tisha baav?

@Dr.Shmuel it's actually a dip to around 50; look more closely at the axis labeling.

Week of Sep 23 -- Sukkot, if I recall correctly.

@MonicaCellio What’s the peak in...is that late February? Is that PTIJ?

@DonielF yes, Purim Torah produces that spike every year.

Questions, votes, and (as best I recall) visits track, too. Visits get a hedge because something happened to SE's Google Analytics last February/March and we don't have earlier data now. But that's what I remember seeing.

Our biggest days for page views are Erev Yom Kippur, days surrounding Pesach, erev Tisha b'Av, and (this year) erev 17 Tamuz.

@Alex @William To clarify what @Alex is saying here: Hebrew vowel sounds are not represented by letters (like English vowels are) but by diacritics on the letters. When learning Hebrew, you learn to read with those diacritics first, but most texts lack them: you eventually learn to read without them.

A single word without context, though, and without the diacritics, often has more than one pronunciation, depending on which diacritics are omitted. E.g., ישב can be yashav or yashev or yeshev or yishev or others. כלב, in fact, can be kelev (dog) or Kalev (Caleb: there are no capital letters in Hebrew) or k'lev (like the heart of) or others.

Nekudot, what Alex mentioned, are the diacritics.

@msh210 Shkoyach.

@William I'd imagine so. This might help:

jewfaq.org

@Alex ברוך תהיה

I.e. an argument that is only valid because of another view that the person you're arguing against holds, that you disagree with.

@Alex "stipulating for the sake of argument" gets you most of the way there

@IsaacMoses That works for the verb form. What about as a noun? In my most recent answer I wrote that someone uses an "according to your own view" argument, but that sounds a bit awkward.

well

@Dr.Shmuel Should I post לשיטתך as an answer there?

Assuming you paste your earlier sentiments about Hebrew transliteration, I'd say go for it. @Alex

@alex consider arguendo

@DoubleAA Not a bad idea, though it's not quite the same.

@William This dictionary will vowelize words you look up

This one also parses the words, but the interface is Hebrew

@ba It also finds the lemma even if you look up a declined or conjugated form, even with clitics or affixes.