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vav-consecutive

vav-consecutive noun: a grammatical feature of Biblical Hebrew and, to a lesser extent, other Northwest Semitic languages, which allows for a verb's aspect or tense to be flipped to its inverse when preceded by the conjunction וְ־ (wə-, “and”).

Noun

vav-consecutive (plural vav-consecutives)

  1. a grammatical feature of Biblical Hebrew and, to a lesser extent, other Northwest Semitic languages, which allows for a verb's aspect or tense to be flipped to its inverse when preceded by the conjunction וְ־ (wə-, “and”)

Forms of vav-consecutive

pluralvav-consecutives

Questions about vav-consecutive

What does vav-consecutive mean?
Vav-consecutive means a grammatical feature of Biblical Hebrew and, to a lesser extent, other Northwest Semitic languages, which allows for a verb's aspect or tense to be flipped to its inverse when preceded by the conjunction וְ־ (wə-, “and”).
What part of speech is vav-consecutive?
Vav-consecutive is a noun.
What is the plural of vav-consecutive?
The plural of vav-consecutive is vav-consecutives.

Words near vav-consecutive in the dictionary

  1. Vaux
  2. Vauxhall
  3. Vauxhalls
  4. vauxite
  5. vav
  6. vav-consecutive
  7. Vav-Tharad
  8. vavangue
  9. vavasor
  10. vavasories
  11. vavasors

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