Lesson 6 | Commands

What we learned this lesson

1. There are three types of commands
2. Imperative
3. 2nd person (affirmative commands only)
4. E.g. “Eat your food.”
5. Form: similar to 2nd person imperfect, except...
6. qal, piel – ת form prefix is dropped
7. hiphil, niphal, and hithpael – ת form prefix is replaced by a ה
8. Cohortative
9. 1st person
10. E.g. “Let us eat our food.”
11. Form: identical to imperfect, though at times with an a-class vowel + ה added to the end
12. Jussive
13. 3rd person
14. E.g. “Let him eat his food.”
15. 2nd person (commands negated with אַל only)
16. E.g. “Don’t eat your food.”
17. Form: identical to the imperfect