Structural focus
Learn singular/plural masculine/feminine present patterns and embed common prepositions.
Objective
Use Pa'al as the baseline active verbal system in present tense.
Deconstruction
Track prefix attachment in לעולם and root behavior of ב-ר-כ.
Key points · 7
- Both source courses teach the verb through one model root: Harrison's paradigm verb is קָטַל ('he killed'); the Online Hebrew Tutorial's Pa'al model is סָגַר ('he closed').
- The dictionary / citation form is the 3rd-masculine-singular PERFECT (past) — סָגַר, קָטַל, כָּתַב ('he closed / killed / wrote') — not the infinitive.
- The Pa'al present is the קוֹטֵל participle and agrees only in gender/number. OHT's סָגַר table: סוֹגֵר (m.sg), סוֹגֶרֶת (f.sg), סוֹגְרִים (m.pl), סוֹגְרוֹת (f.pl).
- So אֲנִי סוֹגֵר, אַתָּה סוֹגֵר and הוּא סוֹגֵר share one form — the pronoun supplies the person (OHT Lesson 10).
- The full paradigm — past, future, imperative, infinitive — is OHT Lesson 10 and Harrison's regular-verb paradigm (Ch. 15–16, your Week 8).
- Embed the object with אֵת and route adjuncts through this week's prepositions: בְּ (in), לְ (to), עִם (with), עַל (on), בֵּין, לִפְנֵי, אַחֲרֵי, עַד, שֶׁל.
- ב, ל, כ are inseparable prepositions — they prefix directly (בְּבַיִת, לְעוֹלָם), per Harrison Ch. 11 / OHT Lesson 7.