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@elisha-starquill

I’m a bit of a language nerd.

Me too! And thank you for clearing the question!

In fact we have contractions in Hebrew! For example, the correct form to say ”of you / of yours” is the separate word shelcha, but in speech we usually contract it to the suffix -shcha. The correct way to say school is beyt sefer (which literally means ”book-house”, by the way), but usually we pronounce it Betsefer. However, unlike English, it’s not correct to write this way.

We learned the contractions in school, and usually they make sense anyway (except of ”ain’t”. I still have no idea what does it mean), so they weren’t too hard to learn.