The most common Trope phrase is the SOF PASUK phrase. Every verse that you will be chanting ends with a SOF PASUK:

Note the " : " at the end of the sentence. This is a SOF PASUK, meaning "end of verse."

 to indicate that you must pause after chanting the sentence. The SOF PASUK symbol always follows the last word, just like a period follows the last word in a sentence.

The Short Vertical Lines: Metegs and Siluq

. Normally, this line would be called a METEG, which shows an accent. 

When a METEG comes just before a SOF PASUK, it is called a SILUQ

The SOF PASUK and SILUQ in combination tell you what to do

is more than one meteg in a word, the one to the left indicates a major accent

, and any to its right indicate minor accented syllables.

- Whenever there is a SOF PASUK at the end of a sentence, there will be a symbol that looks like a METEG in the word -- the SILUQ.

Some words have one or more METEGs and a SILUQ: 

Only one of these is a SILUQ -- the left-most one. The other a METEG. We mark the SILLUQ in red, and the METEG is black.

SOF PASUK rarely appears by itself. Like ETNACHTA, SOF PASUK is helped by two Tropes you are already familiar with - MERCHA and TIPCHA.

In the next lesson, you will learn the melody for the complete phrase:

מֵרְכָ֥א  טִפְּחָ֖א  מֵרְכָ֥א  סוֹף-פָּסוּֽק׃

Then, you will get exercises for the ways that these Tropes can be combined:

טִפְּחָ֖א סוֹף-פָּסוּֽק׃

מֵרְכָ֥א טִפְּחָ֖א סוֹף-פָּסוּֽק׃

טִפְּחָ֖א מֵרְכָ֥א סוֹף-פָּסוּֽק׃

מֵרְכָ֥א טִפְּחָ֖א מֵרְכָ֥א סוֹף-פָּסוּֽק׃

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