Index

LESSON 1
a) Introduction
b) pronunciation and transliteration
c) installing Hebrew script on your computer
d) the hebrew alphabet
e) learning the alphabet while singing
f) vocalization – nikud
g) soft and hard consonants: v/b, ch/k, f/p – s and sh
h) “full” and “defective” spelling

LESSON 2
a) the noun (eg “the tree”, “the house”) – singular and plural
b) the definite article „the“ , the indefinite article „a“
c) the gender
d) the verb „to be“ in present
e) the personal pronouns (eg “I, you, he”)

LESSON 3
a) the adjective (eg “small, big”)
b) the position of the adjective after the noun
c) adjectives with the male ending –i, female –it
d) degrees of adjectives (eg “good, better, best”)
e) The dual-plural (eg oznayim – ears)

LESSON 4
a) the verb (eg “makes, goes, stands”)
b) the shoresh – the root of the verb

LESSON 5
a) the prepositions be- / in, le- / to, mi- / from
b) personal pronouns – dative (to me, to you etc.)

LESSON 6
a) yesh – “there is” and en – “there is not”
b) the verb „to have“
c) the dative, formed with the preposition le- – “to”
d) more verbs
e) more prepositions
f) the merging of prepositions and personal pronouns (eg „because of him“, „after you“)
g) interrogative sentences without question word begin with „ha-im“

LESSON 7
a) the 7 conjugations of verbs – ha-binyanim
b) the genitive (eg “king Lear’s death”)
c) the possessive pronoun (“my, your, his” etc.)
d) the possessive ending appended to the noun
e) forming the accusative with the preposition et
f) the first binyan: the active conjugation pa’al

LESSON 8
a) the numbers

LESSON 9
a) the 2nd binyan: the active conjugation pi’el
b) abbreviations

LESSON 10
a) the 3rd binyan: the active conjugation hif’il
b) female plural form in male nouns – and vice versa

LESSON 11
a) the 4th binyan: the reflexive conjugation hitpa’el
b) past tense of Hebrew pa’al – forms
c) past tense of the binyan pi’el
d) past tense of the binyan hif’il
e) past tenst of the binyan hitpa’el

LESSON 12
a) The smichut: the die composed form of nouns (eg mishpachat+levi / the Levy family)
b) the future tense of active verbs
d) the future of binyan kal
e) the future tense of the pa’al-verb “liheyot – to be”
f) future tense of the binyan pi’el
g) future tense of the binyan hif’il
h) future tense of the binyan hitpa’el

LESSON 13
a) the passive binyanim: nif’al, pu’al, huf’al
b) the 5th binyan: nif’al (passive of pa’al) – nif’al in present tense
c) nif’al-verbs with active meaning
d) nif’al in past tense
e) the passive participle
f) relative sentences

LESSON 14
a) the subjunctive: “to be” in past tense + verb in present
b) sequence of tenses and reported speech
c) the derivation of nouns from pa’al-, pi’el- and hif’il-verbs
d) the imperative – eg “go!”

LESSON 15
a) the verb “to become”: the nif’al of “to be”
b) “to become” in colloquial Hebrew: hofech, nehefach, ne’eßah
c) Der 6th binyan: pu’al
d) the 7th binyan: huf’al

LESSON 16
a) the future tense of the binyan nif’al
b) the future of the binyan pu’al
c) the future of the binyan huf’al