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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Russians are coming Russian women are comingAgreementfor genderand numberPast and future tense verbs additionally distinguish 1st, 2nd, and 3rdperson, e.g.: I’ll pull You’ll pull He’ll pullFor full details see 18 onwards.c Agreement of ‘particles of being’The particles expressing ‘is’ and ‘are’ (described in 2(a)) agree for genderand number with their subject noun:masc. sing. fem. sing. masc. pl. fem .pl. Thus:Masc. sing.Masc. pl. Our Yoram is tiredThese falafels are coldd Agreement of determiners: , , etc.Determiners that point to someone or something, i.e. words denoting‘this, that, the same, such, a kind of’ (demonstratives), agree for genderand number with their noun. Most other determiners (e.g. ‘any, every’, ‘no’) do not agree. Taking each determiner in turn:21

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