Ch. 19: Pronominal Suffixes on Verbs

Question 1

In general, what type of pronominal suffices do verbs take?

Answer 1

Type 1

Question 2

What forms are the alternative Type 1 pronominal suffixes?

Answer 2

3ms, 3fs
1cs
3mp, 3fp

Question 3

What are the alternative Type 1 forms for the 3ms and 3fs?

Answer 3

הוּ

הָ

Question 4

What are the alternative Type 1 forms for the 3mp and 3fp?

Answer 4

ם

ן

Question 5

What are the alternative Type 1 forms for the 1cs?

Answer 5

נִי

Question 6

What are the changes that the Qal Perfect Strong verb goes through when taking a pronominal suffix? (general changes)

Answer 6

1. All initial Qamets > Shewa
2. For all 1st and 2nd: accent on suffromative and Pathach stem vowel (קְטַלְתּ֫)
3. For all 3rd: accent on last stem consonant and Qamets stem vowel (קְטָלַ֫ת) [Qamets Hatuf on 3ms]
4. Any sufformative that begins with a consonant will have a Shewa on the final stem consonant (קְטַלְתּ֫)

Question 7

What are the unique changes to the 3fs?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 7

Qamets Hey ending has changed to Pathach Taw or Qamets Taw

קְטָלַ֫ת

Question 8

What are the unique changes to the 2ms?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 8

Loss of the final Qamets

קְטַלְתּ֫

Question 9

What are the unique changes to the 2fs?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 9

Instead of a final Shewa, it has a Hireq Yod
This form is the same as the 1cs
קְטַלְתִּ֫י

Question 10

What are the unique changes to the 2fp?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 10

Instead of Seghol Nun, it has a Shureq

קְטַלְתּ֫וּ

Question 11

What are the unique changes to the 3ms?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 11

Qamets Hatuf instead of a pathach on stem vowel

קְטָל

Question 12

What are the unique changes to the 1cs?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 12

No major changes

2. The Hireq Yod is often written defectively as a Hireq before the pronominal suffix
3. This form is the same as the 2fs

Question 13

What are the unique changes to the 3cp?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 13

The Shureq sufformative of the Perfect may be written defectively as Qibbuts before a pronominal suffix

Question 14

What are the unique changes to the 1cp?

For Qal Perfect

Answer 14

The Shureq sufformative of the Perfect may be written defectively as Qibbuts before a pronominal suffix

Question 15

What forms do the Nun suffixes appear?

Answer 15

3ms
3fs
2ms
1cs
1cp

Question 16

What is common about the Nun-Suffixes?

Answer 16

1. They all have an accent and a Seghol

2. 2ms has a Kaf Dagesh; all the rest have a Nun Dagesh (3ms, 3fs, 1cs, 1cp)

Question 17

What Nun-Suffix has סֶ֫נּוּ

Answer 17

3ms/1cp

יִלְכְּדֶ֫נּוּ

Question 18

What Nun-Suffix has בֶ֫נָּה

Answer 18

3fs
Qamets Hey (it also has the accent, Seghol, nun dagesh)
יִלְכְּדֶ֫נָּה

Question 19

What Nun-Suffix has בֶ֫ךָּ

Answer 19

2ms
Kaf dagesh Qamets (it also has the accent, Seghol)
יִלְכְּדֶ֫ךָּ

Question 20

What Nun-Suffix has בֶ֫נִּי

Answer 20

1cs

Question 21

What are the changes that the Qal Imperfect Strong verb goes through when taking a pronominal suffix? (general changes)

Answer 21

Every stem vowel becomes a Shewa (the 3fp and 2fp are not attested)

Question 22

When Qal Perfects and Imperfects end in a consonant and it takes a pronominal suffix, I will need to add a connecting vowel. In general what types of vowels do Perftect prefer and what do Imperfects prefer?

Answer 22

1. Perfects: a-class connecting vowels (Pathach and Qamets)

2. e-class connecting vowel (Seghol and Tsere)

Question 23

For 3-ה verbs; what do you do when adding a pronominal suffix to those forms that have a Seghol Hey?

Answer 23

Drop the Seghol Hey (I learned this in chapter 9 on pronominal suffixes)

Question 24

What is the spelling for the Qal Imperative 2ms?

Answer 24

Qamets Hatuf; Shewa

Question 25

When parsing where do I put the information about pronominal suffixes?

Answer 25

at the end

Qal with Waw Consecutive Perfect 1cs נָתַן with 2ms suffix

Question 26

Like Imperfects, what happens to imperatives that have a Pathach stem vowel?

Answer 26

It lengthens to a Qamets fore the pronominal suffix

שְׁמָעֵנִי

Question 27

What conjugations take the Nun suffixes?

Answer 27

1. Imperfect

2. Imperative