I just released a new video where I am explaining in depth what is going on with this root. The downloads I promised, you can find below this article.
A lot of my students are afraid when they see this root because somehow, they know that a yud at the beginning means something and maybe they can still say to be born and I was born, but why it is like this and how they actually came to that conjugation, they don't know. So, most of the students are trying to avoid this root all together. A pitty.
What is so special about this root?
A yud on the first root position is something that changes a bit the rules in each binyan.
This is called gizra pey yud. What is a gizra? A gizra is a subcategory, a subgroup within a binyan. So, in this case, all the verbs within each binyan that have a root that starts with yud, we call them gizra pey yud or subcategory pey yud. The name stems from the first letter. Pey stands for first. So pey yud means first root letter is a yud.
How many binyanim do we have?
We have two major binyanim. What I mean by major is that they are on the higher position of the frequency ranking. Then we have two, which are, “good to know verbs”. And we have one verb that comes from a binyan that is rather exotic in this root.
The verbs by frequency
· to be born (nifal),
· to give birth (paal),
· to assist in childbirth (piel),
· to father (hifil),
· to act childishly (hitpael).
Still in doubt about gizra and their influence on the binyanim?
Why do you need to know? Because when you see something like this, a yud at the beginning, that should make an alarm go off. Maybe you don't remember exactly the rules, but at least you're not shocked when you see that there is something that is not according to the norm. If you still have these doubts, please do yourself a favor and look into gizra.
I have a book where I have listed all the rules and the gizra are part of it. Of course, if you want to go further and really into depth, there is my course. You can make a three-month challenge or you can spread it out and make it much slower, as slow as you want. There's life-time access. But without understanding what the influence of gizra is on Hebrew verbs, you will always have doubts and struggle.
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Summary of the video (slides):
Conjugation table of all verbs within this root:
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