Tag Archives: Pronominal Suffixes

1. The independent principal forms of the personal pronoun (the separate pronoun), given in the preceding section, express only the nominative. The accusative and genitive are expressed by forms, usually shorter, joined to the end of verbs, nouns, and particles (pronominal suffixes or simply suffixes); e.g. הוּ‎ (toneless) and וֹ‎ (from āhû) eum and eius, קְטַלְתִּ֫יהוּ‎ I have killed him (also קְטַלְתִּיו‎), קְטַלְתָּ֫הוּ‎ or (with āhû contracted into ô) קְטַלְתּ֫וֹ‎ thou hast killed him; אוֹר֫וֹ‎ (also אוֹרֵ֫הוּ‎) lux eius. The same method is employed in all the other Semitic languages, as well as in the Egyptian, Persian, Finnish, Tartar, and others; in Greek, Latin, and German we find only slight traces of the kind, e.g.… Learn Hebrew