14.6 Qal Perfect 3א
A 3א often quiesces with Compensatory Lengthening to V_2
- Occasionally, it quiesces with silent shewa or reduced/Hateph vowels (i.e., Vocal Sheva)
- Usually there is Compensatory Lengthening (CL)
- V_2 = \bar A (Qamets) unless reduced by the perfect sufformative
- QP2ms: NOT מָצַ֫אְתָּ*, BUT מָצָ֫אתָּ
- QP3ms, the Aleph is already quiescent (CL): NOT מָצַא*, BUT מָצָא
- בגד כפת have Dagesh Lene only if not after a vowel
- In other words, the Quiescent Aleph is ignored - it is neither a consonant, nor a vowel and does not affect syllabification
- Note how the 2fs forms drop the Dagesh Lene and final Silent Sheva - this is because a vowel is before the בגד כפת letter
- NOT מָצַאְתְּ*, BUT מָצָאת
- As mentioned, in 3G, V_1 = \bar A (unless reduced in 2mp/2fp) as is diagnostic of the QP conjugation - (are you beginning to see the pattern?)
יָרֵא is 3א AND Tsere Stative
- יָרֵא is irregular
- Most Tsere statives have \bar E only in the 3ms, but with יָרֵא, V_S = \bar E unless V_2 is reduced (P3fs, P3cp)