1. Chapters 26-28
Weak Verbs

2. 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

3. Weak Verbs (pg. 174)
Nomenclature

4. Weak Verbs (pg. 174)
This is more current

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

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

7. 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!

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

9. 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)

10. Weak Verbs
Most common weak verbs
הָלַךְ
לָקַח

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

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

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

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

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

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

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