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 and with Mappiq, since the  is consonantal; but the weakening to  is also found, see below, g.

3. The variety of the suffix-forms is occasioned chiefly by the fact that they are modified differently according to the form and tense of the verb to which they are attached. For almost every suffix three forms may be distinguished:

(a) One beginning with a consonant, as, , (only after î), , , &c. These are attached to verbal forms which end with a vowel, e.g. ;, for which by absorption of the we also get , pronounced qeṭaltîu; cf. .

(b) A second and third with what are called connecting vowels, used with verbal forms ending with a consonant (for exceptions, see and ). This connecting vowel is a with the forms of the perfect, e.g., , (on , the ordinary form of the 3rd masc. perf. with the 2nd fem. suffix, cf. below, g); and e (less frequently a) with the forms of the imperfect and imperative, e.g. , ; also with the infinitive and participles, when these do not take noun-suffixes (cf.  and h). The form also belongs to the suffixes of the perfect, since it has arisen from  (cf., however, ). With, , the connecting sound is only a vocal , which has arisen from an original short vowel, thus , , e.g. (qeṭālekhā), or when the final consonant of the verb is a guttural, , e.g. . In , the original short vowel (ă) reappears as  with the tone  (also , see g). On the appending of suffixes to the final of the imperfect, see.

Rem. 1. As rare forms may be mentioned sing. 2nd pers. ,, &c., in also  (see below, i);  ,  ,. Instead of the form, which is usual even in the perfect (e.g. , ), occurs as   (as  , , ,  always in ); with  , .—In the 3rd masc.  , ; in the 3rd fem.  without  (cf. ) , ; , with