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[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Give me, please, two or three examples of "modal" participle.

Friendly,

Pere Porta

2013/9/26 Rolf Furuli <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no>:
> Dear Pere,
>
> My statistics of the participles in the Tanakh:
>
> Of 5,315 active participles, the references are as follows:
>
> past: 1,730; present 2,633, future 657; present completed*: 212; modal: 74.
>
> Of 1,100 passive participles, the  references are as follows:
>
> past: 364; present 263, future 97; present completed  299; modal: 77.
>
> *present completed can be compared to English perfect.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Rolf Furuli
> Stavern
> Norway
>
>
> Torsdag 26. September 2013 10:03 CEST skrev Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>:
>
>> Yes, Karl.
>> But the Participle referring to present or to past is by far the most 
>> usual.
>>
>> Friendly,
>>
>> Pere Porta
>>
>> 2013/9/26 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>:
>> > Pere:
>> >
>> > The participle is also used for the future, examples include Genesis 
>> > 17:19,
>> > 19:13, Deuteronomy 3:21, 4:14, 30:18, 2 Kings 22:16, Isaiah 5:5, Jeremiah
>> > 38:22–3, 2 Chronicles 18:24.
>> >
>> > Karl W. Randolph.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> These two verbs are in Participle.
>> >> Depending on context, Hebrew Participle refers to past or to present.
>> >> That's why some translate them as pasts and some translate them as
>> >> present.
>> >>
>> >> Greetings
>> >>
>> >> Pere Porta
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Pere Porta
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