High School – RULES

29/11/17 – HEBREW VERBS

Verbs have a core of 3 ‘root letters’. There are 7 groups of verbs.

29/11/17 – 1^st Group (‘PAAL’) – regular verb

1^st group verbs are usually used to express a simple action.

Example: לִרְקוֹד = To dance

The Lamed at the beginning means ‘to’

The root letters are RESH KOOF DALET – these letters always stay; what goes around the 3 letters depends on who dances and when.

FUTURE

PRESENT

PAST

I (m)

I (f)

אֶרְקוֹד

אֲנִי רוֹקֵד

אֲנִי רוֹקֶדֶת

רָקַדְתִּי

You (m)

You (f)

תִּרְקוֹד

תִּרְקְדִי

אַתָּה רוֹקֵד

אַתְּ רוֹקֶדֶת

רָקַדְתָּ

רָקַדְתְּ

She

יִרְקוֹד

תִּרְקוֹד

הוּא רוֹקֵד

הִיא רוֹקֶדֶת

רָקַד

רָקְדָה

We (m)

We (f)

נִרְקוֹד

אֲנַחְנוּ רוֹקְדִים

אֲנַחְנוּ רוֹקְדוֹת

רָקַדְנוּ

You (m pl)

You (f pl)

תִּרְקְדוּ

אַתֶּם רוֹקְדִים

אַתֶּן רוֹקְדוֹת

רָקַדְתֶּם

רָקַדְתֶּן

They (m)

They (f)

יִרְקְדוּ

הֵם רוֹקְדִים

הֵן רוֹקְדוֹת

רָקְדוּ

22/11/17 – reading exceptions

Reading in Hebrew is very straightforward. There are only few exceptions :

-If a word ends with the letter Het ח, it will always end with the sound aH (not Ha or Hoo etc…)

-if a word ends in yud-vav יו, it will end with the sound av (not eev).

15/11/17 – the past – taster

When a verb ends in [….tee] (whatever the group of the verb),

‘I’ is the subject and it’s happening in the past.

Examples:

חשבתי	[Hashavtee]	I thought
ידעתי	[yadatee]	I knew
רקדתי	[rakadtee]	I danced
דיברתי	[deebartee]	I spoke
הסתכלתי	[histakaltee]	I watched

08/11/17 – verb TO BE, present, past

There is not verb TO BE in the present, for example to say I AM BIG we just say ‘I BIG’ [ani gadol] אני גדול

but there is a verb TO BE in the past:

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning
הייתי	[hayti]	I was
הייתה היית	[hayta] [hayt]	You were (masculine) You were (feminine)
היה היתה	[haya] [hayta]	He was She was
היינו	[haynu]	We were
הייתם הייתן	[haytem] [hayten]	You were (masc. pl.) You were (fem. pl.)
היו	[hayu]	They were

Note that we do not need the subject pronoun (I, you, he…) in the past, just the verb