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 3. A further class comprises the very numerous cases, in which the infinitive with is used as the object of a governing verb, hence, again, for the direction which an action takes. The verbs (or conjugations) which occur most frequently in this combination with and an infinitive are:  (with an infinitive without, e.g. , 31, ), , ,  (prop. to add) to continue, very frequently, even in prose, with an infinitive without , as , , 12, 37:5, , , &c.; ; ; ; , ;  (with an infinitive without  );  (with an infinitive without  , , ); ;  (to be unwilling); ;  (with an infinitive without , e.g. , , , , , );  with an accusative of the person in the sense of to give up to some one, to cause, or permit him to do something, e.g. ,  (with an infinitive abs. , see ),  how to do something (in   is analogous); ;  (with a change of subject, e.g.  and he waited for it to bring forth grapes).

We must further mention here a number of verbs in Hiphʿîl (partly denominatives), which express an action in some definite direction (cf. ), as, (it) low,  (it) high,  (it) deep,  (it) far, distant,  (it) good (with an infinitive without  , but , in the same combination, with );  anything early (, along with its opposite  something late, with an infinitive without );  (it) much,  (it) wonderful (even with a passive infinitive ), &c.