forms. These terms, which were intended to refer to the aspectual functions of BH verbs, became so entrenched that they are still used today to refer to the forms themselves. Terms such as suffix conjugation and prefix conjugation as well as qatal and yiqtol were therefore introduced with the specific purpose of preventing possible misunderstandings in this regard. In this grammar the terms perfect and imperfect will be retained because they still occur in most of the popular dictionaries. Note,