The most common relational morpheme in Modern Hebrew is the suffix  ִי- -ī, which in gentilic use may refer to a geographical name or concept, as in תל-אביבי tel-ʾavivi ‘of, from, living in Tel-Aviv’, צרפתי ṣarfati ‘French’, ספרדי sfaradi ‘Spanish, Sephardic’, אשכנזי ʾaškenazi ‘Ashkenazi’, עירוני ʿironi ‘urban’, כפרי kafri ‘rural, rustic’, or to a social division, as in דתי dati ‘religious, orthodox’, חילוני x̱iloni ‘secular’.

In possessive constructions the morpheme appears in the second constituent, as in the Bible, where it is the only element that is inflected, for example ארץ-יש…