Verbal Root
3 base letters that determine meaning
Verbal Stems
how Hebrew expands the meaning of the word (7 different stems)
Verb Conjugations
morphological and phonological adjustments to the verbal root that determine tense, aspect, mood, person, gender, and number of the verb
Preformative
letter(s) added to the beginning of the word
Sufformative
Letter(s) added to the end of a verbal root
Affix
general term for anything added to beginning or end of word (prefix or suffix)
Vocalic Sufformative
sufformative to the verbal form that is only a vowel (shureq or qames he)
Syllabic Sufformative
sufformative that constitutes an entire syllable
Preformative Vowel
vowel associated with the preformative letter in stem or conjugation
Thematic Vowel
vowel associated with the second root letter
