A syllable always begins with a consonant (except when a word begins with Vav, which is a form of conjunction) and may end with either a consonant or another vowel. Since there is one vowel per syllable, the number of syllables in a word is the same as the number of vowels.
We will indicate word division by drawing a line between the syllables and then placing the numbers (1), (2), and so on, directly below (or sometimes above) each consecutive syllable:
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