Ch. 13: Qal Perfect, Strong

Question 1

Describe the Qal stem

Answer 1

1. typically active (though some can be passive)
2. simple action or unnuanced type of action
3. can be transitive, intransitive, or stative

Question 2

What kind of verbal aspect does the perfect conjugation portray? What does it portray as to time?

Answer 2

1. perfective aspect: A completed action or state of being

2. Does not portray a specific time. Can be past, present, or future.

Question 3

13.3 How translate the perfect conjugation?

Answer 3

1. English past tense (He studied)
2. English present perfect (He has studied)
3. English past perfect (He had studied)
4. English future perfect (He will have studied)

Question 4

13.3 How translate the perfect conjugation as a stative?

Answer 4

1. English present tense (He is wise)

2. English past tense (He was wise)

Question 5

13.3 How translate the perfect conjugation with verbs of perception or attitude?

Answer 5

English present tense (He knows, he loves)

Question 6

13.6 What is the lexical form?

Answer 6

Qal Perfect 3ms

Question 7

What does the Qal Perfect want its vowels to be?

Answer 7

בָבַבְ

Question 8

What happens when a verbal root ends in ת and a sufformative begins with ת?

Answer 8

They will contract to
תּ
(There are five Perfect sufformatives that begin with Taw)

Question 9

What happens when a verbal root ends in ן and a sufformative begins with ת?

Answer 9

They will contract to
תּ
(There are five Perfect sufformatives that begin with Taw)

Question 10

What happens when a verbal root ends in ן and a sufformative begins with נ?

Answer 10

They will contract to
נּ
(This only happens in the 1cp)

Question 11

How are stative verbs classified?

Answer 11

By there stem vowel

Question 12

What are stem vowels

Answer 12

The vowel associated with the second root consonant

Question 13

What are the three different stative verbs?

Answer 13

Pathach-Stative
Tsere-Stative
Holem-Stative

Question 14

What is the paradigm for the Tsere-Stative verbs?

Answer 14

It is the same as the Qal Perfect, but with a Tsere in the 3ms stem vowel

Question 15

What is the paradigm for the Holem-Stative verbs?

Answer 15

1. The stem vowel is Holem all the way except for
2. 2mp and 2fp where it is a Qamets Hatuf and
3. 3fs and 3cp where it is a vocal Shewa

Question 16

What are stative verbs derived from?

Answer 16

their corresponding adjectives

Question 17

How to tell the stative verb apart from their corresponding adjective?

Answer 17

1. the verbs will be inflected as verbs (sufformatives) and the adjective as adjectives (masculine and feminine endings)
2. The verb’s 3ms and the adjectives masculine singular will be the only identical form; context will decide

Question 18

What is the order of parsing?

Answer 18

verbal stem, conjugation, person, gender, number, and lexical form (or verbal root)

Question 19

Parse:

זָכַ֫רְתִּי

Answer 19

Qal Perfect 1cs

זָכַר

Question 20

What is the negative particle?

Answer 20

לֹא / לוֹא

Question 21

What are the other two possible forms for the particle הִנֵּה?

Answer 21

הֵן

הֶן־

Question 22

How is the particle הִנֵּה used?

Answer 22

1. it can stand alone

2. it can take type 1 pronominal suffixes

Question 23

What is the base stem for the particle הִנֵּה?

Answer 23

הִנּ

Question 24

What are the three special uses of the particle הִנֵּה?

Answer 24

1. demonstrative interjection: stress the importance of something
2. predictor of existence: indicates the presence of someone or something with an emphasis on immediacy and urgency
3. Used to introduce a fact or situation on which a subsequent statement is based