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sufformative

sufformative noun: in Biblical Hebrew, an inflectional ending or suffix.

Noun

sufformative (plural sufformatives)

  1. In Biblical Hebrew, an inflectional ending or suffix.
    • This sufformative draws the accent to itself, causing reduction of the preceding vowel to šᵉwâ.2000, Edwin C. Hostetter, An Elementary Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, page 69

Forms of sufformative

pluralsufformatives

Questions about sufformative

What does sufformative mean?
Sufformative means in Biblical Hebrew, an inflectional ending or suffix.
What part of speech is sufformative?
Sufformative is a noun.
What is the plural of sufformative?
The plural of sufformative is sufformatives.

Words near sufformative in the dictionary

  1. Suffolkers
  2. Suffolks
  3. Suffolky
  4. suffonsified
  5. suffonsify
  6. sufformative
  7. sufformatives
  8. suffosion
  9. suffossion
  10. suffossions
  11. suffragan

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