Pere: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl, > > in the last part of your post you write: > > "Do you know of any other examples of a verb listed in dictionaries with a > consonant, waw, tau, which conjugate in qatal hiphil without the medial yod > and without a second tau where normal conjugation calls for one? Absent > being able to show a pattern from ......" > > Please what does "qatal hiphil" mean? > Maybe by "qatal" you mean what I call "past"? > Yes. But why do you call it “past”? The normal way of referencing that conjugation is to call it “qatal” because it does not refer to a tense. Decades ago I was taught not to call it “past” because it doesn’t refer to the past. > > Regards from > > Pere Porta > > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
