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
Verbs are the anchor of a language
Parsing categories for verbs
stem the template of the verb
aspect the angle of the verb
person helps identify the verb’s subject
gender helps identify the verb’s subject
number helps identify the verb’s subject
Person abbreviations
1 = 1st person
2 = 2nd person
3 = 3rd person
Gender abbreviations
m = masculine
f = feminine
c = common (i.e. the gender is not indicated)
Number abbreviations
s = singular
p = plural
The perfect paradigm
strong verbs (אָמַר)
hollow verbs (בּוֹא)
weak final letter (הָיָה)
The meaning of the perfect aspect
viewed as complete
most often past actions
also: expresses state, prophetic certainty, timeless proverbs
The prefix ו = “and” or any other conjunction
Sequential-perfect paradigm has same form as “normal” ו + perfect
The meaning of the sequential-perfect
imperfect aspect
implies sequence
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