Grammar:Tutorial/Special word forms

Here declension of some particular words will be present. There are no absolute need to study these word forms, as we will put these word forms into our dictionary.

Forms of the verb נתן

The verb נתן (“to give”) is declined in perfect accordingly the following table:

person	gender	singular	plural
3rd	masculine	נתן	נתנו
	feminine	נתנה
2nd	masculine	נתת	נתתם
	feminine		נתתן
1st		נתתי	נתנו

Imperfect of נתן in both PAAL and NIPAL:

person	gender	singular	plural
3rd	masculine	תתי	יתנו
	feminine	תן	תתנה
2nd	masculine	תן	תתו
	feminine	תתי	תתנה
1st		אתן	נתן

The verb לקח

It follows 1-נ pattern.

Infinitive: קחת.

Imperative: קח.

person	gender	singular	plural
3rd	masculine	יקח	יקחו
	feminine	תקח	תקחנה
2nd	masculine	תקח	תקחו
	feminine	תקחי	תקחנה
1st		אקח	נקח

The verb הלך

Imperative: לך.

TODO: declension of הלך?

Nominative of personal pronouns

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		אני, אנכי	אנחנו
2nd	masculine	אתה	אתם
	feminine	את	אתן, אתנה
3rd	masculine	הוא	הם, המה
	feminine	היא	הנה

Seldom there are 2nd person, sing., fem. form אתי.

Seldom אנחנו is replaced with נחנו or אנו.

יש and אין with pronoun suffixes

The forms not present in the traditional analysis of biblical texts are in parentheses.

The word יש:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		(ישי)	(ישנו)
2nd	masculine	ישך	ישכם
	feminine	(ישך)	(ישכן)
3rd	masculine	ישנו	(ישם)
	feminine	(ישנה)	(ישן)

The word אין:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		אינני
2nd	masculine	אינך	אינכם
	feminine		(אינכן)
3rd	masculine	אינני	אינם
	feminine	איננה	(אינן)

הנה with pronoun suffixes

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		הנני	הננו
2nd	masculine	הנך	הנכם
	feminine		(הנכן)
3rd	masculine	הנו	הנם
	feminine	(הננה)	(הנן)

עוד with pronoun suffixes

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		עודי or עודני
2nd	masculine	עודך
	feminine
3rd	masculine	עודנו	עודם
	feminine	עודנה	(עודן)

The interrogative pronouns

מי means “who?”, מה means “what?” איה means “where?”, it can take pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
2nd	masculine	איכה
3rd	masculine	איו	אים

Nouns אב, אח, פה

These nouns have a suffix י in the conjugate form (פי, אחי, אבי). We should also investigate their forms with pronoun suffixes (this book is not clear about it).

The verb נגע

Infinitive of the verb נגע (“to touch”) has two forms: נגע and געת.

Imperfect of יכל

The first י is replaced with ו in imperfect:

person	gender	singular	plural
3rd	masculine	יוכל	יוכלו
	feminine	תוכל	תוכלנה
2nd	masculine	תוכל	תוכלו
	feminine	תוכלי	תוכלנה
1st		אוכל	נוכל

Some prepositions with pronoun suffixes

The preposition ל with pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		לי	לנו
2nd	masculine	לך	לכם
	feminine		(לכן)
3rd	masculine	לו	להם
	feminine	לה	להן

The preposition ב with pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		בי	בנו
2nd	masculine	בך	בכם
	feminine		(בכן)
3rd	masculine	בו	בהם
	feminine	בה	בהן

Sometimes 3rd person, plural masculine has the form בם.

The preposition את (meaning either "with" or a definite direct object) with pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		אתי	אתנו
2nd	masculine	אתך	אתכם
	feminine		(אתכן)
3rd	masculine	אתו	אתם
	feminine	אתה	אתן

Variants of את:

• 3rd person, plural, masculine: אתהם.
• 3rd person, plural, feminine: אתהן.

The preposition מן with pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		ממני	ממנו
2nd	masculine	ממך	מכם
	feminine		מכן
3rd	masculine	ממנו	מהם
	feminine	ממנה	מהן or מהנה

The preposition כ with pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		כמוני	כמונו
2nd	masculine	כמוך	ככם
	feminine		ככן
3rd	masculine	כמוהו	כהם
	feminine	כמוה	כהן

The preposition עם with pronoun suffixes:

person	gender	singular	plural
1st		עמי or עמדי	עמנו
2nd	masculine	עמך	עמכם
	feminine		עמכן
3rd	masculine	עמו	עמם or עמהם
	feminine	עמה	עמן

TODO