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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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83 The object suffix:Òî³ ÒîòÐë Ìñ ‘to build it’A fairly common mark of official and literary <strong>Hebrew</strong> is the suffix to theverb, denoting an object pronoun ‘it, them, us’, etc. meaning exactly thesame as , etc. Here are two examples: ,Reflexives:‘myself,yourself . . .’Suffixed infinitive: ?Is it worthwhile to educate them thus?Suffixed past tense:. . . After he brought him outside . . .The infinitive is the most commonly suffixed form of the verb. (Manyother forms of the verb cannot be suffixed in this way; consult atraditional grammar.)84 Reflexives: ‘myself, yourself . . .’‘Myself, yourself’ and so on are usually rendered by the pronounwith a suffix:- , , , , , , , , , Thus: I promised myself teach yourselfThe use of is optional, hence also: ‘teach yourself’.145

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