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 3. The suffixes of the 2nd person (, &c.) are all formed with a k-sound, not, like the separate pronouns of the 2nd person, with a t-sound.

So in all the Semitic languages, in Ethiopic even in the verbal form (qatalka, thou hast killed=Hebr. ).

4. The suffix of the verb (the accusative) and the suffix of the noun (the genitive) coincide in most forms, but some differ, e.g.,.

Paradigm A at the end of the Grammar gives a table of all the forms of the separate pronoun and the suffixes; a fuller treatment of the and the mode of attaching it to the verb will be found in ., of the noun-suffix in, of the prepositions with suffixes in , of adverbs with suffixes.

Rem. 1. The feminine form has undoubtedly arisen from, by obscuring of an original â to ô (for  =  cf. the Arab. hâ-ḏâ, this, masc.; for  as the feminine ending, § 80), and the forms , , both of which are rare, are shortened from. In  is used as a relative, cf. below. In, , (with the article and the demonstrative termination ) is found for. The forms and  are the plurals of  and  by usage, though not etymologically. The form occurs only in the Pentateuch (but not in the Samaritan text),, , &c. (8 times), always with the article, [as well as,  frequently], and in  without the article [cf. Driver on ]. Both the singular and the plural may refer to things as well as persons.

2. In combination with prepositions to denote the oblique case we find (cf. for, ), ,  (fem.), , ; , , , also without , even before the verb , &c. Note also, &c.