Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Just as in the past tense, the base of the HIF’IL is stress-dominant – theendings do not get the stress.PI’ELImperative , , Infinitive The ‘binyan prefix’ is (h), as in the past tense. Thus, one can view as le + ha + BASE ( ).Action noun 28–9 BINYAN PI’EL AND HITPA’ELThe family PI’EL, HITPA’EL, and the passive PU’AL (see 32) are closelyrelated in prefixes, vowels, and, above all, in requiring that , , as themiddle root-letter be hard (with a few exceptions).28 PI’ELPI’EL has no binyan prefix. Using the verbPast ‘to convene’: As with the a vowel in binyan PA’AL, the vowel e drops when it loses itsstress, yielding not kinesa, kinesu but rather kinsa, kinsu.51