Nouns are either masculine or feminine. Person inflection in the verbs is obligatory, and so is preposition inflection. Modern Hebrew is an SVO language with an alternating VSO word order that was dominant in classical Hebrew. Topicalization and other word order shifts are possible. Adjectives follow head nouns, but numeral quantifiers precede them.
Copulative verbs are obligatory in the past or the future tense.
The lexicon of Modern Hebrew is composed of original Hebrew words from all its language periods together with loan words. Semantic shifts occur in many original words, however, a lot of the changes are due to loan translations or loan shifts. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers.