12.5 Person, Gender, Number

The inflected person, gender, and number refer to the subject of the verb⁹⁴

• Person, Gender, and Number for verbs are the same as for nouns
• Gender
  • Male, female, or common
  • “Common” gender is for verb forms that could be either M or F; In Hebrew, as in English, the words for “I” and “we” are Common (i.e., there is not a masculine form of “I” and a separate feminine form of “I”)
• Person
  • 1st person is the speaker - “I/we sat”
  • 2nd person is the person being spoken to - “you sat”
  • 3rd person is anyone (or any_thing_) else - “he/she/it/they sat”
• Number is either singular or plural - there are no dual verb forms

When parsing, it is standard to use parsing code “3ms” to mean “third person, masculine, singular.”

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94. There is one exception. Pronominal suffixes are used to denote the object of the verb. We will study these in Lesson 19↩︎