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 feminines also: (1) a tone-lengthened vowel on the removal of the tone reverts to its original shortness (thus the ā of the termination  becomes again ā in the construct st. ). On the other hand, even an originally short vowel is retained as (a long) pretonic vowel before the endings and  in the ''abs. st., e.g. ; (2) without the tone or foretone an originally short vowel almost always becomes ; on the other hand, before a vowel which had thus become Šewâ the ă in the first syllable which had hitherto also been reduced to returns, although usually attenuated to ĭ, e.g.  from ṣădhăqăth; (3) in the plural of the feminines of segholate forms before the termination of  or, and in formations of the latter kind also before the light suffixes, a pretonic Qameṣ'' reappears, while the short vowel of the first syllable becomes. This short vowel, however, returns in the construct st. plur., whether ending in or ; in formations of the latter kind also before the grave suffixes.

The following Paradigms (with the exception of I, d) deal only with such of the forms treated in § 94 as incur some vowel changes or other. All forms with unchangeable vowels follow the analogy of Paradigm I, d.