such as כָּבֵד (to be heavy) and קָטֹן (to be small). Most stative verbs are considered to be intransitive because they cannot take a direct object. 13.3 The Perfect Conjugation. The Perfect conjugation is used to express a completed action or state of being. When used to describe a completed action (either in reality or in the mind of the speaker), the Hebrew Perfect may be translated by the English past tense (he studied), present perfect (he has studied), past perfect (he had studied), or future
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