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1. The feminine ending, when appended to the masculine forms treated in , effects in almost all cases the same changes as are produced in the masculine forms by the addition of a light suffix, since in both cases the tone is moved one place farther forward (see ). The following scheme is based on the same division into four classes, with their subdivisions, as in ; a few special forms will be treated in in connexion with the paradigms of feminine nouns.

Paradigm I: segholate forms, with the feminine ending always added to the ground-form, (a), , and with attenuation of ă to ĭ , , (from another root ; see Baer on ),  (unless belonging to Paradigm b); (b)  (masc. );  , not to be confounded with the unchangeable forms with a prefixed , derived from  stems, as , plur. ; (c), proper name , ; (d)  ; (f) ,  ; (g)  (also , Paradigm i); (i)  (masc. , cf. Paradigm h); from qiṭl and quṭl-forms, , ; (k)  (as if from ),  (ă attenuated to ĭ) captivity ,  (probably an original qiṭl-form); (l) ,  (attenuated from ). Adjectives derived from stems also belong in flexion to this class, as, with middle guttural ; (m) ; (n).

Paradigm II: ground-form qăṭălăt, &c., (a) ; (b) ; (c) ; (d) ; (f),  (from , ). From stems arise such forms as  (masc., properly part. Qal from ) female witness. From the ground-form qătŭl, (masc. ),, &c.

Paradigm III: unchangeable vowel in the first, changeable in the second syllable, (a) (cf. the examples in, and the retention of the ē in the part. , , ; in the  ), but also with the change of the ē (originally ĭ) into , ,. However, in these participial forms the feminine is mostly indicated by (see below, ); (c)  (masc. ), but also with a return of the final, , , and the examples in. On the â of the participles of verbs, which also belong to this class, such as , cf. .