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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Level Two2 Some adjectives have the pattern PA’ALANI, mostly based on verbsand denoting personality or emotion: patient uptight murderous suspicious scholarly3 The suffix -Often, the adjectival suffix is just added to a noun or verb as itstands, without changing the vowels to -a-a-, thus: vociferous ( voice) dreamy ( cheeky ( stinging ( dreaming) cheek) sting)Besides personality and emotion, it can also denote ideology: leftist ( nationalistic ( revolutionary ( 4 left) nation) revolution)126The pattern PA’IL has two characteristic meanings: often (a) ‘capableof being (washed, fixed, believed, etc.)’ and sometimes (b) ‘tending todo something’. In many cases, however, there is no predictablemeaning (c):

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