to gird. The forms of its infinitive are: 1. 
, 2. 
, 3. 
, 4. 
.We have said above, in Chapters 2 and 3, that gutturals are never doubled, but in their place the preceding syllable is changed from a short vowel to a long one. Also, they rarely have a silent sheva and never a pronounced one (moving sheva), but that in place of this one of three composites is used. This should be observed chiefly about the verbs of this and the following conjugation, and in addition also the rule that a simple sheva can never follow a composite sheva, for then both would have to be pronounced, which according to Chapter 3, cannot be done.
The paradigm verb of this conjugation is to gird. The forms of its infinitive are: 1. , 2. , 3. , 4. .
Not infrequently, in the future tense, it is usual also for the 
to be silenced and to be omitted in the first person; but then it is punctuated by a 
, like 
I said, 
you said, f. 
, etc.
Then the 
in the future tense may have a silent 
, like 
, you want. But when this is to avoid two shevas occurring at the beginning of a word, the first is not changed into a chirek, as otherwise it should, but into that vowel from which the 
was compounded.
The forms of the infinitive in the simple passive (niph‘al) are 
, 
, and 
whence:
From 
, when the accent is athnach or siluk, it becomes 
, or 
with the quiescent 
, and in the same manner for 
it becomes 
.
The intensive has nothing unique to note either in the active (pi‘el) or passive (pu‘al). The forms of the infinitive of the causative active (hiph‘il) are 
, 
, and 
.
Here too the 
frequently quiesces in the future, becoming 1. 
or 
or 
2. 
or 
, etc.
The infinitive passive (hoph‘al) is 
; whence:
There is nothing unique to note either in the active (reflexive) or the passive (reflexive). Finally the manner of conjugating the compound verb (composed of this and the preceding) anyone can easily learn from what has been already taught.
1. [Term not used by Spinoza.—M.L.M.]