Fakakta and Gonif. A Yiddish explainer.

Who could miss her wearing that fakokta hat? She held two bibles and that gonif couldn’t find one.

“Fakakta" Pronounced: fa-KOK-tah. adjective. Meaning: Something silly or ridiculous.

Definitions of “gonif”. Pronounced GaH-nif. noun. Meaning: A thief or dishonest person or scoundrel, often used as a general term of abuse.

The top photo are the abc’s of Hebrew. The basic grammar and vocabulary of Yiddish, which is written in the Hebrew alphabet, is Germanic. Yiddish, however, is not a dialect of German but a complete language‚ one of a family of Western Germanic languages, that includes English, Dutch, and Afrikaans.

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