patach

{| align="right" class="wikitable" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| ''''' |- | colspan="2" align="center" style="background:white;height:100px"| |- | IPA | style="background:white" | or |- | Transliteration | style="background:white" | a |- | English approximation | style="background:white" | fa'r |- | Same sound | style="background:white" | qamatz |- | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Example |- | colspan="2" align="center" style="background:white;height:50px"| |- | colspan="2" style="width:250px; background:white; text-align:center;" | The word for also in Hebrew, gam. The first and only vowel (under Gimel, the horizontal line) is a pataḥ. |- | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Other Niqqud |- | colspan="2" style="width:250px; background:white; text-align:center;"| ShwaHiriqTzereSegolPataḥKamatzHolamDageshMappiqShurukKubutzRafeSin/Shin Dot |} Pataḥ ( ', , Biblical Hebrew: ') is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by a horizontal line underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme which is close to the "[a]" sound in the English word far and is transliterated as an a.

In Modern Hebrew, a ' makes the same sound as a qamatz, as does the '''' ( , "reduced "). The reduced (or ') niqqud exist for ', ', and ' which contain a ' next to it.