Unit 4

Question 1

עֶבֶד

Answer 1

Slave, servant

Question 2

אֶל־

Answer 2

to

Question 3

עִם

Answer 3

With

Question 4

א - כ - ל

Answer 4

To eat

Question 5

שׂ - מ - ח

Answer 5

To be happy, to rejoice

Question 6

ר - ע - ב

Answer 6

Hungry

Question 7

אֹכֶל

Answer 7

Food

Question 8

לֶחֶם

Answer 8

Bread

Question 9

בָּשָׂר

Answer 9

Flesh, meat

Question 10

שֶׁמֶן

Answer 10

Oil

Question 11

דְּבַשׁ

Answer 11

Honey

Question 12

פְרִי

Answer 12

Fruit

Question 13

יַיִן

Answer 13

Wine

Question 14

What is the default rule for the conjunction waw?

Answer 14

Waw is pointed with vocal shewa and prefixed directly to the following word with no changes

Question 15

Does a guttural at the beginning of the word affect the pointing of a conjunctive waw?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What happens to a begadkefat letter when a conjunctive waw is added?

Answer 16

The begadkefat letter loses its weak dagesh because it’s now technically following a vowel

Question 17

What happens when a conjunctive waw is added to a word beginning in בּ, מ, or פּ?

Answer 17

The waw becomes a shurq

Question 18

What category of consonants includes בּ, מ, and פּ?

Answer 18

Bilabials

Question 19

What happens when a conjunctive waw is added to a word beginning with any consonant pointed with vocal shewa (except י)?

Answer 19

The waw becomes a shureq and words beginning with a begadkefat letter lose the weak dagesh

Question 20

What happens when a conjunctive waw is added to a word beginning in י pointed with vocal shewa?

Answer 20

The י quiesces and the conjunction waw is pointed with a hireq

Question 21

What happens when a conjunctive waw is added to a word beginning in a letter pointed with a reduced vowel?

Answer 21

The waw is pointed with the equivalent short vowel

Question 22

What form of conjunctive waw is used when linking two related, paired things (i.e. good and evil, bread and water)?

Answer 22

The waw is pointed with a qamatz

Question 23

What can the conjunctive waw mean?

Answer 23

And, but, whereas

Question 24

What are independent prepositions?

Answer 24

Words that are not linked to the following noun in any way

Question 25

What are separable prepositions?

Answer 25

Independent words that are usually joined to the following word by a maqqef

Question 26

What are inseparable prepositions?

Answer 26

Prefixes consisting of a single consonant

Question 27

What are the three inseparable prepositions?

Answer 27

בּ ,כּ ,ל

Question 28

בְּ־

Answer 28

In, at, with, by

Question 29

-כְּ

Answer 29

Like, as

Question 30

לְ־

Answer 30

To, for

Question 31

How are inseparable prepositions typically pointed?

Answer 31

With vocal shewa

Question 32

How are inseparable prepositions attached to words beginning with consonants pointed with vocal shewa (other than י)?

Answer 32

The first vocal shewa is changed to a hireq

Question 33

רְחֹב

Answer 33

City square

Question 34

How are inseparable prepositions attached to words beginning in י with vocal shewa?

Answer 34

The י quiesces and the preposition is pointed with hireq

Question 35

How are inseparable prepositions attached to words beginning with a consonant pointed with a reduced vowel?

Answer 35

The inseparable preposition is pointed with the corresponsing short vowel

Question 36

What happens when an inseparable preposition is prefixed to a word already prefixed with the definite article?

Answer 36

The definite article is elided and the preposition takes its place, but the original pointing of the definite article remains

Question 37

What is a furtive patah?

Answer 37

A patah placed at the right side of the final consonant (typically a guttural)

Question 38

Why does the furtive patah occur?

Answer 38

Gutturals prefer a-class vowels so if they appear at the end of a sentence following any other vowel, they snatch a patah to satisfy their vowel preferences

Question 39

רְבִיעִי

Answer 39

Fourth

Question 40

ר - ו - ץ

Answer 40

To swarm

Question 41

שֶׁרֶץ

Answer 41

Creeping thing

Question 42

חֲמִישִׁי

Answer 42

Fifth

Question 43

אָדָם

Answer 43

Man, mankind

Question 44

שִׁשִּׁי

Answer 44

Sixth

Question 45

בָרַךְ

Answer 45

To bless, to kneel

Question 46

שְׁבִיעִי

Answer 46

Seventh

Question 47

חָיָה

Answer 47

Living things, animals