Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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94ó ÒîÔí ,íÖòÖL Ôí ‘today, this year’ denotes not only ‘the’ but also ‘this’, with most units of time: ofdestination:e.g. ‘northwards’ today this evening this week this summer this morning this time this month? Where were you this morning?95 í Ö of destination: e.g. í ÖòÒîõÖ®‘northwards’The normal marker of movement is or suffixed (e.g. . . . , )for saying ‘to me, to him’ etc. (see 35(a) for details). with no suffix canbe found in higher styles, particularly with other positional prepositions,e.g. , , . : is unstressed, and thusInstead of using for ‘to’, a handful of words can take the suffix ‘northwards’. Notice our stress-mark; this distinct from feminine . <strong>An</strong>d similarly: southwards (and the other points of the compass) rightwards leftwards to the side forwards backwards inside out home to town to IsraelThe suffix can also colloquially denote position rather than motion: ‘there’, ‘in front’, ‘a little to the South’.153
Level Two96 Ìô of location: e.g.ñê ÒôÐN Ìô ‘on the left’ ordinarily means ‘from’. However, with various prepositions andadverbs of place it means ‘at’, notably: , , We stood round about, on the left, on the right , on the right of, on the left of the house around the house on the other side of the house under the house above the house97 The gerund: Òî¼ ÌèÔí Ìa‘on his arrival’For forming adverbial clauses, particularly ‘when’ clauses, official orliterary <strong>Hebrew</strong> sometimes uses the gerund. This is generally simply theinfinitive without . Instead of comes denoting ‘when’ or ‘while’.Notice the word order. Using the verb ‘to arrive’:. . . When the passengers arrived at the terminal . . .(on arrival of the passengers at the terminal . . .)Most often, the gerund takes a suffixed pronoun:154 , On arriving at the terminal, one must alight I got to know him well when he was on sabbatical
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ContentsPrefaceGlossaryHebrew gramm
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20 The present tense 35(a) Form of
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Contents ‘grow’ 10458 PA’AL
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Contents91-6 Adverbials91 Adverbs o
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PrefaceThus the exercises in this b
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GlossaryxviAction nouns indicate an
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GlossaryPrefixes are bits prefixed
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Level One
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Level OneFem. sing. Our Sara is t
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Level OneThe feminine plural pronou
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Level OneThere are some exceptions:
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Level OneWhen the vowel a becomes t
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Level One ~ evening ~ part ~ r
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Level OneExample: ‘good’Fem. s
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Level OneFurther examples: right
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Level OneA few quantity words follo
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Level One an empty tank an empty
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Level OneMasc. sing.Fem. sing.Masc.
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Level OneMasculine numerals 1-10 '
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Level One1 For ‘21, 31’, etc.
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Level Onec Adjectives without their
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Level OneThe full list is as follow
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Level OneFor words that already hav
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Level One19 The past tensea Form of
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Level OneAnd using the verb ‘get
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Level One take! run! put! get d
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Level OneThere is a variety of such
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Level One6 For an ADJECTIVE there i
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Level OneNotes:1 The suffixes consi
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Level OneNote: The traditional name
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Level OneNotes:1 In the past tense,
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Level OnePresent The vowel in
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Level One30-2 THE PASSIVE BINYANIM:
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Level OneNotes:1 Some omit the lett
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Level OnePU’AL, like the other pa
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Level One Take the meat Take the
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Level Onea Preposition + suffix: ,
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Level Oned Preposition + suffix:
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Level OneAdjustment (b)If the next
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Level One37L Ñ ‘there is, there
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Level One39 Questionsa Questions of
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Level OneBy contrast,rather than a
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Level OneIn fact, Hebrew commonly h
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Level One48 Adverbial clauses: Ìk
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Level OneFor hypothetical ‘like
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50-9 SPECIAL ROOT-TYPES ' rootsMany
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2 In most cases where there is no s
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Future , , , , , ,Roots with
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* This particular form needs no adj
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4 A peculiar adjustment, more commo
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a Usually soft , , directly followi
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Most such roots repeat the same two
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For example, ‘sit’: ' rootsPa
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Further examples:Maverickverbs
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5 ‘walk up to’, another law u
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has the infinitive infinitive for
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Page 184 and 185: a Inverting subject and verb1 Where
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Page 188: Exercises
Page 191 and 192: Exercises4 The definite article1 Th
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Page 199 and 200: Exercises21 The future tense21a For
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Page 221 and 222: Exercisesand the future tense:. . .
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Exercises9 On what words are the fo
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Exercises73 The construct as a poss
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Exercises78 Preposition + suffix:Ò
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Exercises87-90 COMPARATIVES87 Compa
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Exercises95í Ö of destination, e.
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Exercises102 Wishes and requests1 I
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Exercises106b Starting with the obj
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about (= concerning) about (= appr
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abybaby carriagebaby girlbaby sitte
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ainwavebreadto breakto break out (w
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in chargecharityChavaChayacheapchec
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court (of law)courtyardcousincowcra
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DovdownstairsDrdrag noundressdresse
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to fall in love withfamilyfantastic
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a fruitfunfurniture() Vocabularyf
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(for) heaven’s sake heavy Hebre
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invalidto inviteironto ironironingI
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(at) leastto leave (= quit)to leave
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to meanmeaningmeanwhilemeatmeatymed
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newsnewspaper(the) nextnext tonicen
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parentspark nounto park intrans.par
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prayer-bookprayer-shawlto preferpre
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sheetshelfshelterShimonshirtshivaSh
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sourSouthsouthernsparklingto speaks
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to talk totalltank (weapon)tape-rec
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traffic-lighttraytreatmenttreetribe
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weirdwellwell done!Westernwetwhat?w
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