עבריתEXPRESS

Lesson 5: Telling Who Has What

The Ivrit Express series presents compact lessons in Biblical (not Modern) Hebrew grammar. It aims to reinforce (not replace) your classroom experiences.

This lesson introduces the basics of assigning things to other things—in other words, using possessives.

Relax, watch, and listen as you advance through the next few slides.

איש 

כבש

יש כבש לאיש

יש לי כבש

אין לך כבש

אין ליכבש

אין לו כבש

אין לו כבש

יש לך כבש

יש לי כבש

יש לה כבש

יש להכבש

יש לכםכבש

יש לנוכבש

יש להםכבש

יש להםכבש

אין לכןכבש

אין לנוכבש

אין להןכבש

אין להןכבש

בית 

דלת

חלון

אין דלת לבית 

יש דלת לבית 

אין חלון לבית 

יש חלון לבית 

חדש

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יום

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שבוע

יש שבע ימים לשבוע

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יש שלשים יום לחדש

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I recommend that you go through the foregoing picture slides at least three times before advancing to the grammatical discussion.

In fact, you can implicitly learn from the pictures what you need to know: how to use יש and אין followed by ל with various suffixes to say “I have,” “you have,” “she has,” and so on.

Later on you’ll learn other ways to use the suffixes. For now, remember that אין לו ”,means “he has יש לוmeans “he doesn’t have,” and so on as demonstrated in the picture lesson.

In fact, you don’t need to use יש at all. You can use either יש לי כבש or כבש לי to say, “I have a sheep.”

And you can attach the ל preposition to nouns as well as to pronoun suffixes. You can say יש לו כבש (“he has a sheep”) or יש כבש לאיש (“the man has a sheep”).

Use the same pattern to show that one thing includes others, as in the examples with בית and חדש.

CREDITSScripted and narrated by

Dr. Chris Heard, Pepperdine University

Partially funded bya Pepperdine University

Faculty Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant

Artwork licensed viaiStockphoto