Grammar rules (Running) Flashcards
Dagesh Lene
Converts a Plosive to a fricative
Dagesh forte
Doubles a consonant (gemination)
Begad Kefat
Consonants that can take a Dagesh Lene (NB Can take a Dagesh forte like any other)
Mater Lectionis
Consonant acting as a vowel
Default stressed Syllable
Final
Tonic
Stressed Syllable
Pretonic
pre-stressed syllable
Propretonic
Penultimate stressed syllable
How do you tell if a begad kefat letter is Forte?
When it’s preceded by a vowel
syllable with a shewa will never ever EVER…
…be accented
A shewa is silent when…
…immediately preceeded by a short vowel
A Silent shewa indicates…
…the end of a consonant
Metheg
short vertical line on the first vowel of a long word: Distinguishes a Qamets from a Qamets Khatuf
Can a word start or end with Dagesh?
No
Two adjacent shewas…
cannot be of the same quality (second one is vocal)
Shewa at the beginning of the word is…
…always vocal
a Qamets is Chatuf if…
…it’s in a closed unaccented Syllable
What does Metheg do?
turns a Qamets Chatuf back into a regular Qamets
furtive patach
A word-final patach on an ‘ayin or Chet that comes BEFORE its consonant (Does not count as a syllable). “Yeshua” is an example of this
Which guttural can take a vocal shewa (Unlike the others)?
Resh
Instead of Shewa, gutturals take
…chatef patach
What is a segolate?
a 2-syllable word with initial Stress, originally monosyllabic -a (e.g. kalb > kélev)
You can never have a Vocal Shewa under a…
guttral
Segolate nouns are all pluralised…
with Shewa and Qamets followed by masculine plural ending
Gutturals cannot ever ever take…
…a vocal shewa (reduced vowels instead)
the Guttrals are…
aleph א, he ה, chet ח, ayin ע, and resh ר
Gutturals very rarely take…
Dagesh
Definite article takes Qamets (lengthens) when…
…the first letter of the word is a Guttral, since it cannot double
Maqef
Hyphenates a preposition and steals the word’s stress
BuMP Rule
if a word begins with Bet, Mem, or Pe, the Conjunction becomes Shureq
Consonants doubled with a Dagesh forte function as both…
the final consonant of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable
Dagesh in a begadkephat letter is lene unless…
preceded by a vowel
Dagesh in a begadkephat letter is forte if…
…preceded by a vowel
A begadkephat letter at the beginning of a word…
…takes Dagesh lene (unless the previous word ends in a vowel)
Vocal shewa will always occur in…
…an open syllable
How do you tell if a Shewa is silent or vocal?
Preceded by a short vowel = always Vocal
Otherwise = always silent
furtive patach is not counted…
…for syllabification
Short vowels prefer…
…closed unaccented syllables OR open accented syllables
Long vowels prefer
…closed accented syllable
Mappiq
dot in He (NOT to be confused with dagesh) that indicates it is consonantal and not vocalic (i.e. not a mater lectionis)
Three different ways of saying with
עִם, אֵת, ב
What counts as an unchangeable long vowel?
Mater lectionis
In a construct chain, any adjectives always…
come at the end (including demonstratives)
Construct nouns can never ever take…
definite article
How do you translate nouns in construct state?
“The X of…”
The number one (אֶחָד) behaves like…
…An adjective (follows its head & Agrees in Gender & definiteness)
The number one (אֶחָד) in a construct state…
…Precedes an absolute noun usually plural, to form a partative
The Number two (שְׁנַיִם) is classified as…
…a noun
The absolute and construct forms of the Number two (שְׁנַיִם)…
…are used interchangeably without affecting the meaning
In numbers 3-10, spelling changes are only used to indicate…
…changes in gender and state