Structural focus
Apply future prefixes systematically (א/ת/י/נ) and add imperative handling.
Objective
Build robust future-tense control and practical command forms.
Deconstruction
Use י-prefix in ימלך as a direct model for modern third-person future patterns.
Key points · 7
- The future tense is built with PREFIXES (sometimes plus suffixes): א (I), תּ (you / she), י (he), נ (we).
- Pa'al future of סָגַר: אֶסְגֹּר (I), תִּסְגֹּר (you m. / she), יִסְגֹּר (he), נִסְגֹּר (we), יִסְגְּרוּ (they).
- הָיָה ('to be') in the future is יִהְיֶה ('there will be / it will be') — the everyday way to say what will happen.
- Most spoken commands are simply the future: תִּכְתֹּב! ('write!'), תָּבוֹא! ('come!').
- A few set imperatives survive: בּוֹא ('come!'), לֵךְ ('go!'), קַח ('take!'), קוּם ('get up!'), שֵׁב ('sit!').
- Cardinals 1–10 have masculine and feminine forms and (confusingly) take the OPPOSITE gender ending to the noun.
- Tell time with בְּ-: בְּשָׁלוֹשׁ ('at three'), plus וָחֵצִי ('and a half') or רֶבַע ('a quarter').