Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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 Hebrew 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