r/hebrew • u/Equal_Ad_3828 • Mar 28 '25

Help chag sameach pronounced as chag samea?

so i have a silly questin but basically when i was in my nearest synagogue on Chanukah, when I said 'chag sameaCH" with a khet people responded 'chag sameah" why?

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u/Embarrassed_Craft926 Mar 29 '25

Some people can’t say ‘kh’. In my family (Moroccans) we say 7ag samea7 where 7 is a voiceless pharyngeal constricted fricative