Lesson 2 | Verbs—perfect

Review

Moving Forward

We have officially jumped into the deep end of verbs and you have not yet drown! Before we continuing swimming in the deep end of Hebrew grammar, take some time to review what we have learned. As in lesson 1, the recipe for review is below–songs, vocab and grammar.



What we learned this lesson

  1. Verbs are the anchor of a language
  2. Parsing categories for verbs
  3. stem  the template of the verb
  4. aspect  the angle of the verb
  5. person  helps identify the verb’s subject
  6. gender  helps identify the verb’s subject
  7. number  helps identify the verb’s subject
  8. Person abbreviations
  9. 1 = 1st person
  10. 2 = 2nd person
  11. 3 = 3rd person
  12. Gender abbreviations
  13. m = masculine
  14. f = feminine
  15. c = common (i.e. the gender is not indicated)
  16. Number abbreviations
  17. s = singular
  18. p = plural
  19. The perfect paradigm
  20. strong verbs (אָמַר)
  21. hollow verbs (בּוֹא)
  22. weak final letter (הָיָה)
  23. The meaning of the perfect aspect
  24. viewed as complete
  25. most often past actions
  26. also: expresses state, prophetic certainty, timeless proverbs
  27. The prefix ו = “and” or any other conjunction
  28. Sequential-perfect paradigm has same form as “normal” ו + perfect
  29. The meaning of the sequential-perfect
  30. imperfect aspect
  31. implies sequence

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