vav-consecutive en · NOUN
Meanings
- 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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| vav-consecutives | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
sequential imperfect · sequential perfect
Translations (1)
he וָי״ו הַהִיפּוּךְ (grammatical feature in Biblical Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic languages)