Hebrew uses a number of one-letter prefixes that are added to words for various purposes. These are called inseparable prepositions or "Letters of Use" (). Such items include: the definite article "ha-" () (= "the"); prepositions "be-" () (= "in"), "le-" () (= "to"; a shortened version of the preposition "el"), "mi-" () (= "from"; a shortened version of the preposition "min"); conjunctions "ve-" () (= "and"), "she-" () (= "that"; a shortened version of the Biblical conjunction "asher"), "ke-" () (= "as", "like"; a shortened version of the conjunction "kmo").