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Cf. the statistics collected by H. Petri,, part ii, in the , Leipzig, 1890. W. Diehl, ''Das Pronomen pers. suff.''... des Hebr., Giessen, 1895. J. Barth, ‘Beiträge zur Suffixlehre des Nordsem.,’ xvii (1901), p. 205 f. Brockelmann,, i. 159 f.; , p. 638 ff.

1. The pronominal suffixes appended to the verb express the accusative of the personal pronoun. They are the following:—

2. That these suffixes are connected with the corresponding forms of the personal pronoun (§ 32) is for the most part self-evident, and only a few of them require elucidation.

The suffixes, , , (and , when a long vowel in an open syllable precedes) never have the tone, which always rests on the preceding syllable; on the other hand,  and  always take the tone.

In the 3rd pers. masc., by contraction of a and u after the rejection of the weak , frequently gives rise to ô , ordinarily written , much less frequently (see ). In the feminine, the suffix should be pronounced with a preceding a (cf. below, f, note), as  or, on the analogy of āhû; instead of , however, it was simply pronounced , with the rejection of the final vowel,