Lesson 2 | Qal Imperfect
Review
Isn’t it exciting that you’ve now learned both Hebrew finite verbal forms, the perfect and the imperfect? Worthy of celebration!
What we learned this lesson
Here’s what we learned this lesson about the imperfect form:
- The forms of the qal imperfect
- The basic paradigm: שָׁמַר
- A weak form—hollow verbs: בּוֹא
- A weak form—weak final letter: הָיָה
- A weak form—weak first letter: נָתַן
- Other weak verbs: לָקַח and some I-א’s such as אָמַר
- Sequential-imperfect paradigm
- A-class vowel under the ו conjunction
- dagesh in the prefix consonant
- The meaning of the sequential-imperfect
- Perfect aspect
- Implies sequence
