Hebrew For Dummies. Jill Suzanne Jacobs

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rah-ah bad (FS) רָעִים rah-eem bad (MP) רָעוֹת rah-oht bad (FP) גָּדוֹל gah-dohl big (MS) גְּדוֹלָה guh-doh-lah big (FS) גְּדוֹלִים guh-doh-eem big (MP) גְּדוֹלוֹת guh-dohloht big (FP) קָהָן kah-tahn small (MS) קְהַנָה kuh-tah-nah small (FS) קְהָנִים kuh-tah-neem small (MP) קְהָנוֹת kuh-tah-noht small (FP) מָהִיר mah-heer quick (MS) מְהִירָה muh-hee-rah quick (FS) מְהִירִים muh-hee-reem quick (MP) רוֹת muh-hee-roht quick (FP) אִהַּי ee-tee slow (MS) אִהַּי ee-teet slow (FS) אִהִּיִּים ee- tee-yeem slow (MP) אִהִּיּוֹת ee-tee-ee-yoht slow (FP)

In addition, use this adjective pattern: Add an י (ee) ending to change a noun into an adjective. אָבִיב (ah-veev) is “spring” (the season), (ah-vee-vee) is “springlike,” יַלְדוּת (yahl-doot) is “childhood,” and יַלְדוּתִי (yahl-doo-tee) is “juvenile.” Cool, huh?

      Pinpointing Hebrew verbs

      The Hebrew verb is an amazing animal! Verbs are conjugated in the present tense according to gender (male and female) and number (singular and plural). In the future and past tenses, verbs have gender, number, and person (first, second, or third). In the imperative (command form), you have only three forms to choose among: masculine singular (MS), feminine singular (FS), and plural (P). When you conjugate a verb, it must match the gender and number of the subject. See Appendix A for examples.

      

Hebrew doesn’t have a word for “is” or “are.”

      Putting verbs through their tenses

Hebrew has five verb tenses: the infinitive tense (“to” plus the verb); the past tense; the present tense; the future tense; and the imperative, which is the command form (as in “Shut the door”). In this section, I conjugate לִכְתֹּב (leech-tohv; to write) to show the conjugations because לִכְתֹּב is a regular verb with no exceptions.

      LIVING IN THE PRESENT

      In the present tense, Hebrew verbs are conjugated in four ways: masculine singular, feminine singular, masculine plural, and feminine plural. For example:

       כּוֹתֵב (koh-tehv; write) (MS)

       כּוֹתֶבֶת (koh-teh-veht; write) (FS)

       כּוֹתְבִים (koht-veem; writes) (MP)

       כּוֹתְבוֹת (koht-voht; writes) (FP)

      PUTTIN’ IT IN THE PAST

      In the past tense, Hebrew verbs are conjugated according to number, gender, and person. You can either say the personal pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, you, they), as in אֲנִי כָּתַבְתִּי (ah-nee kah-tahv-tee; I wrote), or drop it, in which case the subject is implied: כָּתַבְתִּי (kah-tahv-tee; [I] wrote).

       כָּתַבְתִּי (kah-tahv-tee; [I] wrote)

       כָּתַבְתָּ (kah-tahv-ta; [you] wrote) (MS)

       כָּתַבְתְּ (kah-tahvt; [you] wrote) (FS)

       כָּתַב (kah-tahv; [he] wrote)

       כָּתְבָה (kaht-vah; [she] wrote)

       כָּתַבְנוּ (kah-tahv-noo; [we] wrote) (MP/FP)

       כְּתַבְתֶּם (kah-tahv-tehm; [you] wrote) (MP)

       כְּתַבְתֶּן (kah-tahv-tehn; [you] wrote) (FP)

       כָּתְבוּ (kaht-voo; [they] wrote) (MP/FP)

      LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

      Like the past tense, the future tense has number, gender, and person, and you can either include the personal pronoun

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