Chapters 26-28 Weak Verbs

Weak Verbs A weak verb has one of the following One or more gutturals Full-letter vowel as the middle root letter A י or ו as the 1st root letter A נ as the first root letter Same letter for 2nd and 3rd root

Weak Verbs (pg. 174) Nomenclature

Weak Verbs (pg. 174) This is more current

Weak Verbs The rest of chapters 26-28 Describing the spelling changes that happen for every kind of weak verb Highly detailed morphological information

WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS CLASS! Weak Verbs WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS CLASS!

Weak Verbs Weak verbs often drop a letter So you’ll have 2 root letters, instead of 3, to identify the verb Rarely, you might have only 1 root letter!

SO HOW WILL YOU BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY WEAK VERBS AND THEIR ROOT?

Weak Verbs 4 Easy Steps 1) Remove all prefixes and suffixes 2) Try a 1-נ, then a 1-י, then a 1-ה 3) Try a 2-וּ, then a 2-וֹ, then a 2-ִי 4) Try a 3-ה, then a 1-ל, then a geminate (same 2nd and 3rd root letters)

Weak Verbs Most common weak verbs הָלַךְ לָקַח

Weak Verbs – Parsing וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ Qal-Wayyiqtol-3mp-שׁוּב-he returned

Weak Verbs – Parsing נָתַ֨תִּי Qal-Perf-1cs-נתן-He gave

Weak Verbs – Parsing תֵלֵ֔ךְ Qal-Imperf-3fs/2ms-הלךְ-He went, walked

הֵחֵ֔ל Weak Verbs – Parsing Hiph-Perf-3ms-חלל-He was polluted, defiled (in the niphal)

Weak Verbs – Parsing וַתֵּ֨שֶׁב Qal-Wayyiqtol-3fs/2ms-ישׁב-He sat

Weak Verbs – Parsing וַתֵּֽבְךְּ Qal-Wayyiqtol-3fs/2ms-בכה-He wept

Bottom Line Know that weak verbs often drop letters Memorize the 4 steps to identify weak verbs Be able to parse weak verbs