Second Hebrew Lesson

For those of you who missed the FIRST Hebrew lesson, scroll down two posts to find it.

So here we are on Monday morning. Monday being the second day of the week according to the Torah. Therefore it would only make sense to call it in Hebrew "The Second Day" - Yom Sheni.
יום שני

Yom - for those of you who slept through the past three months of my blogging, is "Day."

Sheni - is second (in the masculine form, because the word "day" is masculine).

If a man is standing second in line, he'd say - ani sheni.
If a woman is standing second in line, she'd say - ani shniya.

Which brings me to the word "second" as in "I'll be there in a sec." So here's your bonus lesson: The translation to saying "I'll be there in a sec." or "just a second" or "wait a second" is the simple Hebrew word "Shniya!"

Ah, wait, I think I neglected to explain pronounciation. The English language puts the emphasis on most words in the beginning of the word. The Hebrew language puts the emphasis on the end of most words.

So proper pronounciation for the two words you learned so far would be:
riSHON.
sheNI.
shniYA.

This is probably the most difficult part for Americans to get used to when learning Hebrew, and the easiest way to pick them out of a crowd speaking Hebrew.

Last quiz taker failed my quiz. I'm waiting to find the genius in class.