[b-hebrew] Past tense with gutterals
pporta at oham.net
pporta at oham.net
Thu Jun 5 01:43:59 EDT 2008
> I've been looking at the past tense with gutterals recently, and have some
> questions concerning pronuciation.
> Take for example nata' נטע [with an ayin at the end]; 'she' form of the
> verb would be נטעה but my problem is, when spoken aloud, in MODERN
> ISRAELI HEBREW would it be 'notea' with the schwa pronounced as 'e', or
> simply 'nota' [the same as the masc. form]?
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Why would it be 'notea'? ------- 'notea', the same as 'shomea' (1S 3:9), is
Present masculine, not Past feminine!
And why would it be pronounced 'nota'?
The right form for the Past feminine singular is a-shewa-a. Look for samples
at Gn 3:12; Ex 10:7 and Jr 3:8.
> Another question is also, ח [chet] seems to be treated as a non-gutteral
> in some places, take for example, 'bachar' בחר it is supposed to be
> pronounced 'bacharah' in biblical hebrew with an extra- 'a' because of the
> gutteral, but I am assuming in modern israeli hebrew many speakers would
> simply say 'bachrah', is this correct?
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It is quite possible that many people in Israel today say 'bachrah'. But I
see no reason to say that the right way to pronounce it is not with an 'a':
'bacharah'. As a model look at Gn 18:13: 'tsaHaqah', she laughed. (Look at
www.oham.net/out/S-t/S-t0189.html)
Heartly,
Pere Porta
Barcelona
> Thanks for the help
>
> David
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