19.5 QP with Suffix Examples

Hebrew	English	Comments
קְטָלַ֫תְהוּ	she killed him	the Qamets+Hei sufformative is replaced with + Tav
קְטַלְתָּ֫הוּ	you killed him	when suffixes are added to 2ms, the sufformative is תּ
קְטַלְתִּיו	I killed him	\(\hat I\) is often defective \(I\) before pronominal suffix
קְטָל֫וּהוּ	they killed him	\(\hat U\) is often defective \(U\) before pronominal suffix
קְטַלְנ֫וּהוּ	we killed him	\(\hat U\) is often defective \(U\) before pronominal suffix

See if you can translate these verbs (answers in footnotes):

• דְרַשְׁנֻ֫הוּ¹²¹
• יְדַעְתּוֹ¹²²
• יְדָעוּם¹²³

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121. we sought him - the P1cp preserves the spelling of the perfect sufformative, but it may be spelled defectively↩︎

122. you knew him - the Tav with a Dagesh (preceeded by a Sheva) is an indicator of 2ms with a suffix↩︎

123. they knew them - the 3CP preserves the perfect sufformative, but it may be spelled defectively↩︎