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The Shvah looks like a colon (:), and you find it below letters. Hebrew actually has three types of Shvahs (but they all look the same):

 Shvah Na (shvah nah), which opens a syllable

 Shvah Nach (shvah nahḥ), which closes a syllable

 Shvah Merahef (shvah mehr-rah-ḥehf ), known as the flying shvah, which results from two Shvah Nas being next to each other in a word

The Shvahs don’t make their own sound but are essentially placeholders for the consonant above them. The Shvah Naḥ, however, holds the sound a little bit longer. You can tell a Shvah Naḥ because it usually comes in the middle or at the end of a word. A Shvah Na is at the beginning of a word or syllable