A Grammar of Mishnaic Hebrew

WEAK VERBS 95
7 a; j. MQ iii. 5; to be like, §ab. 15a; n^?n^n
Hag. 13 a (from Sirach).
Partic.: HTO^O expert, Bek. iv. 4 ; njD^D free, Yeb. iii. 5; PVO^O
in error, RH 25 a; n^^D bent, Kel. iv. 3; P»^0 ib. x. i; n^^D
Oh. ix. 11; rtlS^O ib. xv. 3.
' 212. Note.—The verb n\-| has in the imperf. Qal the following
shortened forms : «nj Yo. i. 3; Nnn, NHN Naz. iii. 6.* in) Kil. iv. 5
(L often ti)n\ cf. Qoh. xi. 3). The Imperat. is formed from mn :
\\n Ab. i. 4 (cf. BH Gen. xxvii. 29; Isa. xvi. 4) ; plur.: ib. ii. 3.
The partic. is always njin §ab. vi. 6, 10; 'Er. i. 10, as already in
BH : Qoh. ii. 22; Neh. vi. 6. Examples of the Pi'el, causing
to be, are found in the partic. only : njntp Ket. 40 b, but also n^JHD
Qid. 58 a and parallels.
The rest of the verb is regular, and even for the forms given
above, the regular forms are also found.
Note also the jussive forms ^7), ^nip Ab. iii. 10, &c.
(9) VERBS WITH PRONOMINAL SUFFIXES.
213. The object of a verb can be expressed in MH, as in BH,
by a suffix. The phonetic rules governing the modification of the
verb when it assumes a pronominal suffix, are the same in MH as
in BH. The following points may be noted:
The third sing, imperf. usually inserts the so-called nun ener-
gicum before the suffix of the third sing. masc. and fem. (cf.
Ges.-K., § 58 i).
In Tfb verbs the original ^ reappears before the suffix in the
third sing, and plur. of the perfect Qal, or is softened into K
(cf. § 205).
These suffixes are used in MH somewhat less frequently than in
BH, their place being taken by H N . The most common suffixes
* These forms also occur sometimes in Aram.; cf. Dalman, § 73 (p. 354) ;
Noldeke, Syr. Gr,^ % 183 (8), but they are more common in MH.