"אני גר בשכונה יפָה מאוד."

Translation: I live in a very beautiful neighborhood.

[AnCatDubh]

♪ It’s a wonderful day in my neighbourhood, a wonderful day in my neighbourhood, won’t you be my, won’t you be my, my neighbour? ♪

[SJEarnest]

I thought that ״ב״ for ״בשכונה״ was supposed to imply the article "the"

[KatiJames1]

The "ב" usually means "in" or "at". "ה" is used for "the".

[IngeborgHa14]

The speaker says בִּשְׁכוּנָה [bishkhuna] without the article. If he put it, it would be [bashkhuna]. You cannot see the difference without niqqud, you have to infer it from context.

[ChickenRunner02]

But if he says 'bishkuna' then the kaf should be hard (kaf) not soft (chaf). He seems to be breaking the bgdkft rules here.

[IngeborgHa14]

If it breaks your rules, you do not have enough rules ;-) After a vowel must always follow the soft form of the begadkefat letter, but after a consonant, usually the hard form is used, but not always, like in מַלְכֵי־ (kings of) or שַׁרְבִיט (scepter). When you combine the monoconsonantal prepositions with a noun, the onset second syllable does not change to its hard form: בְּ+דְּבָרִימ becomes בִּדְבָרִימ [bidvarim]. This phenomenon is called Sheva Medium or שווא מרחף (look it up on page 11).

[ChickenRunner02]

Great thank you.