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Grammar:Tutorial/Special word forms

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Grammar:Tutorial
Misc 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)

TODO