Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

59 A minor binyan: the PO’EL and HITPO’ELWe have described the one-syllable verb, e.g. - , as having a twoconsonantroot: . We have shown such roots in two binyanim: thePA’AL (26(b)) and HIF’IL, e.g. (57(b)).Level A minorTwo binyan: thePO’EL andHITPO’ELThese roots frequently also have a PI’EL, PU’AL and HITPA’EL form, buta special variety thereof, namely the PO’EL, PO’AL and HITPO’EL. Thisinvolves:1 adding the letter ; and2 creating a third consonant. This is done by repeating the second.Moreover, middle , , are soft. Take for example, ‘arouse’:PastPresentFutureInfinitive, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The PO’AL is like the PU’AL except that instead of -u-a- the vowels are-o-a-:. . . . . . . . . The HITPO’EL is like HITPA’EL except (as in PO’EL) for the and therepeated third consonant: . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 107