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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Level TwoHowever, many HITPA’EL and NIF’AL verbs of physical action arereflexive in themselves and do not use etc.: dress oneself comb one’s hair get undressed take a shower shake oneself off cut oneself scratch oneself85 ‘One another’‘One another’ is usually expressed by a pair of pronouns: . . . or (more colloquially) . . . The word order is slightly different from English: We spoke with one another(one with another) They loved one anotherThus the first pronoun stands separate from the second, the prepositioncoming between them.If the subject noun is feminine, the pronouns will be feminine: The blouse and skirt don’t match The two governments do not recognize one another86 Experience adjectives: Ìñ þÔš ,Ìñ Ôì Òîò ‘I’m comfortable, I’m cold’146In 45 we met the constructions . . . ‘It’s good to . . .’ and. . . ‘It’s good that . . .’ without , and in 49(b) we saw predicatesthat can stand completely alone, such as ‘it’s possible’.

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