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 by this means is merely intended to make the strengthening of the second radical audible.

The  (for ),  (  with Silluq), owing to omission of the separating vowel, approximates, if the text is right, to the form of verbs  (cf.  from ).

5. Since the preformatives of the, of the , and of and  throughout, before a monosyllabic stem form an open syllable, they take a long vowel before the tone (according to ), e.g.   for yă-sēb,   for yă-sēb, &c. Where the preformatives in the strong verb have ĭ, either the original ă (from which the ĭ was attenuated) is retained and lengthened, e.g. in  for yă-sōb, or the ĭ itself is lengthened to ē, e.g.   for hĭ-sēb (see further under h). The vowel thus lengthened can be maintained, however, only before the tone (except the û of the, for hŭ-săb); when the tone is thrown forward it becomes , according to  (under  and  ), e.g. , but ;  , but ;  , &c.

Besides the ordinary form of the imperfects, there is another (common in Aramaic), in which the is pronounced  or, the first radical, not the second, being strengthened by , cf. , ; with a in the second syllable, ,  ,  , &c.,   and frequently,  , &c.,  (turn intrans.) , &c.,  ,  , &c.,  (with Dageš forte implicitum) ; in the plural,  , &c. (in pause ); perhaps also,  (unless these forms are rather to be referred to , like  ;  ); with suffix  occurs (cf. ) in ;  ,  , &c. The vowel of the preformative (which before is, of course, short) follows the analogy of the ordinary strong form (cf. also u and y). The same method is then extended to forms with afformatives or suffixes, so that even before these additions the second radical is not strengthened, e.g., &c., for ; ,  (from );  ;  ,  (cf., however,  , ,  , ). To the same class of apparently strong formations belongs (without the separating vowel, for, cf.  and below, p) they shall tingle, , .—On the various forms of the , see under t.