Pere, I teach my students that if a stem (binyan) has an intrinsic prefix (example, נ for Niphal; ה for Hiphil, Hophal, etc.), then when you remove a subject prefix (example, the י of 3ms or ת of 3fs/2ms) a ה will appear, regardless of what the intrinsic prefix was. Now, this is something of a cheat-method but I've found it works. Whether there is anything specifically encoded into Hebrew, I'm not sure. In other words, is the memory hook I teach my students indicative of what actually happens across all stems, or is the Niphal totally anomalous in gaining an unexpected ה?
I'm not sure. GEORGE ATHAS Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia) www.moore.edu.au From: Pere Porta <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:53:31 +0200 To: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Nobody knows? Some days ago I sent to this list a post asking for the reason of the dagesh in the first root consonant in the Niph'al Infinitives. Realizing the list members silence and not-answering... must I think that nobody knows which the answer to this question is? Nobody has here an answer -at least a possible one- to this question? Regards Pere Porta (Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain) _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew -- Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
