Gender Masculine

Nouns, adjectives, finite verbs, participles, pronouns, pronominal suffixes, and some particles change their form according to grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The masculine gender is usually indicated by the absence of any prefix or suffix. However, various prefixes and suffixes can indicate masculine gender.

Article

In Biblical Aramaic, nouns are classified according to gender, either masculine, feminine, or sometimes both. Grammatical modifiers (such as adjectives, active and passive participles, pronouns, pronominal suffixes) change their endings in order to agree with the gender of the term they refer to. A finite verb with masculine gender indicates a masculine subject. All references to male persons in Biblical Aramaic are masculine. However, other entities apart from people can also be classified as masculine. For example, the proper names of nations and tribes are often masculine in Biblical Aramaic. Some particles are also marked for gender in Biblical Aramaic.

Note

Some nouns appear to be masculine but are actually feminine, even some common nouns such as אֶבֶן (stone). That is, some nouns are feminine even though they do NOT take feminine endings. A dictionary or lexicon will indicate the proper gender for each word.

Form

Masculine singular nouns and adjectives have no unique ending; they are the standard dictionary form.

Pe’al Perfect Masculine Forms

Parsing	Aramaic	Transliteration	Gloss
second person masculine singular	כְּתַבְתְּ	kethabhte	you wrote
second person masculine plural	כְּתַבְתּוּן	kethabhtun	you wrote
third person masculine singular	כְּתַב	kethabh	he wrote
third person masculine plural	כְתַבוּ	kethabhu	they wrote

Pe’al Imperfect Masculine Forms

Parsing	Aramaic	Transliteration	Gloss
second person masculine singular	תִּכְתֻּב	tikhtubh	you will write
second person masculine plural	תִּכְתְּבוּן	tikhtebhun	you will write
third person masculine singular	יִכְתֻּב	yikhtubh	he will write
third person masculine plural	יִכְתְּבוּן	yikhtebhun	they will write