Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Level Two92 Echo phrases: e.g. ¬ÖñÐìeô öÒîìÖ®Ìò ìÔ®Ìò ‘won decisively’Where English would use a ‘manner adverb’, elegant Hebrew sometimesuses an ‘echo phrase’, i.e. an abstract noun echoing the verb, to which isadded an adjective of manner: The bodies were buried there temporarilyI sighed three long sighs93 Ða of time, place and meansLocation in time and space is nearly always denoted by , thus: at 6 o’clock ? Where were you last year? She doesn’t come MondaysSimilarly: - It’s at the school It’s in Saudi ArabiaThe chief exceptions are the expressions in 94 below, and time phraseswith ‘every’: I swam every day. . . every time that . . .‘With’ (i.e. by means of) is commonly , but spoken Hebrew also uses :152 Try with a spanner Eat with a fork