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Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Notice that, as in English, the possessor (Rivka) comes before the verb,and the possessed (a cleaning lady) comes after. itself does not inflect.‘I have’: For ‘I have, you have’, etc., one uses , , but always preceding the possessed: , etc., generally placed after I have a cleaning lady She has nerve! We have a cleaning lady They have nerve!For ‘don’t have’, one uses . . . . . . , thus: The neighbors don’t have a video I don’t have a cleaning ladyColloquial <strong>Hebrew</strong> treats the possessed as a sort of direct object (ratherthan as a subject), hence the use of when the possessed is definite:? Do you have them? I don’t have the number in place ofFor ‘have’ in other tenses, <strong>Hebrew</strong> simply uses the verb , keeping the word order and everything else the same. Notice that theverb agrees with the thing possessed, literally ‘to me were pains’: The neighbors will have a video I had a cleaning lady I had pains69

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