12.12 Conjugation Introduction

While the stem provides the overall meaning, the conjugation provides additional descriptive information needed for translation

• Strictly speaking, Hebrew does not have past, present, future, tense, as with English
  • Instead, the easiest way of thinking about it is that Hebrew has complete vs. incomplete action
  • Perfect is completed action
  • Imperfect is incomplete action
• Like English, Hebrew also has Imperative (Volitional), Infinitive, and Participle conjugations