Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Level TwoMore examples: understand react prepare peep lift reply shiftSimilarly for related nouns: type a:‘preparation’. bring awaken ‘recognition’; type b: c What are the roots of these verbs?Although most modern dictionaries list such verbs under , traditionalgrammars insist that type a are from roots with initial (thus --), while type b are from one-syllable roots (thus - ).However, it is simplest to regard both as having one-syllable roots*.* In fact, the only notable connection between type a and initial verbs is ‘drop’ ~ ‘fall’ and ‘give a lift’ ~ ‘travel’.58 PA’AL verbs with -i-a- in the future: ‘grow’A few PA’AL verbs do not have -i-o- in the future but -i-a- without anyguttural being to blame. There are three types:a , , A small group of intransitive verbs have -i-a- in the future (andimperative) and -a-e- in the present, e.g.:104 ‘grow’PastPresent. . . , ,,