Grammar Quiz Terms

Question 1

tense

Answer 1

Tense refers to the category of morphological phenomena that locate a situation in the
course of time.

Question 2

Aspect

Answer 2

refers to the category of morphological phenomena that describe the
contour of a situation in time.

Question 3

Progressive Aspect

Answer 3

Situation is ongoing

Question 4

Perfective Aspect

Answer 4

Situation is complete

Question 5

Imperfective Aspect

Answer 5

Situation is not complete.

Question 6

Fientivity

Answer 6

Refers to the type of movement or activity:

1) verb may be stative. (describe state)
2) fientive (describing activity)

Question 7

Transitivity

Answer 7

refers to the contour of movement or activity:

1) An intransitive verb is one which customarily take no object; pure statives are intransitive.
2. Transitive verb is one which takes objects.

Question 8

Factitive

Answer 8

expressed with the auxiliary verb “made” or the ending “en”

Question 9

Causative

Answer 9

expressed with the auxiliary verb “cause”. In a sentence “caused me to learn”

Question 10

Semantic Categories for QAL

Answer 10

1. Fientive- expresses action

2. Stative- expresses a state or condition.

Question 11

Semantic Categories for NIPHAL

Answer 11

1. Passive- “he was guarded”
2. Reflexive: “he guarded himself”
3. Active “he guarded”

Question 12

Semantic Categories for PIEL

Answer 12

1. Stative- Factitive “he honored”
2. Fientive/Active- Plurative or repetitive (he walked about) (he smashed to bits)
3. Denominative- verbs from nouns (“acted like a priest”)
4. Simple Active- (he spoke)

Question 13

Semantic Categories for PUAL

Answer 13

Pual is the passive of the Piel

Question 14

Semantic Categories for Hithpael

Answer 14

1. Reflexive- “he sanctified himself”

2. Active- “he prayed”

Question 15

Semantic Categories for HIPHIL

Answer 15

1. Causative- “he caused to rule”

2. Lexical- root takes on very different meaning.

Question 16

Semantic Categories for HOPHAL

Answer 16

Hophal is primarily the passive of the Hiphil, though is can also be the passive of the Niphal.

Question 17

terminology for: yiqtol conjugation

Answer 17

1. Imperfect
2. prefex conjugation
3. yiqtol

Question 18

terminology for: qatal conjugation

Answer 18

1. Perfect
2. Suffic conjugation
3. qatal

Question 19

Possible uses of the yiqtol conjugation

Answer 19

1. futue- “he will kill
2. present (imperfective)- he kills, he is killing
3. habitual- he continually kills
4. modality (potential)- he would kill, could kill, may kill
5. lo=negative- “you shall not kill”

Question 20

Possible uses of the wayyiqtol conjugation

Answer 20

1. preterite/ past (narrative/ simple past, “and he killed”

Question 21

Possible uses of the qatal conjugation

Answer 21

1. past/perfective aspect- “he killed”

2. rhetorically future - “he will kill”

Question 22

Possible uses of the weqatal conjugation

Answer 22

1. future- “and he will kill”
2. present/imperfective- “and he kills” “is killing”
3. habitual- “he habitually kills”
4. deontic modality (directive)- “and you shall kills
5. deontic modality (volitive)- “and may he kill/ let me kill”

Question 23

Possible uses of infinitive absolute

Answer 23

1. imperative- “you shall kill”
2. Indicative- “he kills/killed”
3. Adverbial- “he really killed”

Question 24

Possible uses of the participle

Answer 24

progressive aspect- “he was/is/will be killing”

Question 25

Possible uses of the infinitive construct

Answer 25

1. as a noun- “killing”

2. in various verbal clauses- “while/when/until/as he kills/killed”

Question 26

How do you form a negative command in hebrew?

Answer 26

[negative imperative = lô + imperfect]