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vav-consecutive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables
vav--con-sec-u-tive
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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”)

Inflected Forms

vav-consecutives (plural)

Phrases

sequential imperfect sequential perfect

Frequently Paired Words

sequential imperfect sequential perfect

Questions

What does vav-consecutive mean?
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”)

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