12.07.2015 Views

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS
  • No tags were found...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Level Twoa"rootsA few verbs lose an initial . The commonest are:1 ‘fall’, which loses in the future and infinitive:FutureInfinitive. . . , , , 2 ‘travel’ and (notice also that their last letter is a guttural, hence ): ‘touch’, which lose in the future and imperative just likeFutureImperative , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,Notice the ‘nun’ in the infinitive:, 3 ‘bear’, which loses in the future, infinitive and imperative.(Notice that its last letter is , hence just like in 58(d)below. Notice also the in the infinitive just like .)FutureInfinitiveImperative. . . , , , , , 4 ‘give’, which is altogether odd: besides losing its first in thefuture, infinitive and imperative, it also loses its second in part of thepast tense:98PastPresent normalFutureInfinitiveImperative , , , , , , . . . , , , , , , , , , ,

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!