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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Level OneNotes:1 The suffixes consisting of a vowel (i.e. 3rd fem. sing. and 3rd pl. )take the stress. All the other suffixes are unstressed. This is true ofmost verb types, in all tenses. However, for the 2nd pl. formsnewscasters, teachers and their like insist on stressing the suffix, inaccordance with the Classical rules , .2 The last vowel in the base drops when it loses its stress: not kanasa butkansa, not kanasu but kansu.3 Notice also that in most forms in the table the base vowels are a-a. Infact, in nearly all 1st or 2nd person forms of the past tense, in allbinyanim, the last base vowel is likewise a.Presentmasc.fem.Pl. Sing.Notes:1 The feminine singular is stressed .2 In the plural, instead of the expected konesim, konesot, we get konsim,konsot. The stressed e has lost its stress to the ending, and drops out asa result. This is a standard rule for the e vowel.Future46Pl. Sing.

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