From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] PS: Re: VERBS
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:42:18 -0400
and it's not only motion verbs
"Gamarnu!" = End it!
or "Gamarnu?" = Are we/you done yet?
Shoshanna
In Modern Hebrew, past-tense motion verbs (but not other
verbs) are used for future-tense suggestions (e.g., "HALAXNU?,"
literally "did we go?" meaning "shall we go?") [This example is
doubly interesting because "SHARNU," "did we sing?" cannot mean "shall
we sing?" It basically only works with motion verbs.]
It's "halachnu?" - and it's an idiom, idioms are in a class by themselves.