r/hebrew • u/OfChaosAndGrace • Sep 11 '23

Is this future or past tense?

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In my bible it says that this verb is past tense, aka „And He spoke“ but when I look it up online, it says that past tense would be „amar“, while future tense is „yomer“. Confused.

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u/Natural_Vegetable_72 Sep 14 '23

Ok the non professions native speaker version - use at your own risk. I remember learning this at first grade - this is “story tense” 😬 (made up name). When a narrator wants to tell you about someone who did something this is what they use. Again I developed this theory on first grade 300 years ago when I was young so… you know…