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 *Emphatic future: ''wājā́'' + imperfect (remnant of BH ''*wahayā'', waw-consecutive + suffix conjugation)
 *Jussive: ''jế'' 'let it be' + imperfect
-===Waw-consecutive===
-The Biblical Hebrew distinction between waw-preterite and perfect, and waw-stative and future, became a purely syntactic one: The waw-preterite is used as the default past tense form, and the perfect is used when pre-verbal particle is attached (such as ''lō'' 'not', ''him'' 'if', ''ha-'' 'question particle', ''hinni'' 'but'). This is similar to Old Irish verbal allomorphy between independent and dependent forms.
-*''wajjṓγal'' = he ate
-*''lō haγal'' = he did not eat
 ===Uses of the infinitive construct===
 Many of the Biblical or quasi-Biblical uses of the infinitive construct were retained: