Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Notes:BinyanPA’AL1 The vowel in the 1st person ( ) is odd one out: not i but e.(Putting it technically, ‘lowers’ the vowel that goes with it.)2 In this and other binyanim, except HIF’IL, stress is shifted onto thesuffix, if any, and as a result the vowel losing the stress is relegated toa brief e or lost, thus:tichnosi tichn e si,tichnosu tichn e su3 When the first root consonant is , , , it will be soft rather thanhard, i.e. it will be ‘v, ch, f’. This is the result of a general rule: withcertain exceptions , , are soft after a vowel and otherwise hard.InfinitiveImperative masc. sing. fem. sing. pl. Notes:1 The infinitive prefix here is usually .2 A general rule for virtually the entire verb system is that the future, theinfinitive and the imperative share the same vowel pattern, thus:! ~ ~ ,! ~ ~ .Action nounb One-syllable PA’AL, e.g. ‘get up’ ‘get up’) are just aStrictly speaking, ONE-SYLLABLE verbs (e.g.variant of the PA’AL binyan, arising because they have a two-consonantroot. But they are sufficiently distinct to warrant separate treatment.47