Nif'al in the Future

Level 3

Future נפעל forms include איכנס, I will enter, and תיכנסי, you will enter to one female listener. They differ from present נכנס.

How It Works

The Enter Family

In ordinary modern full spelling, learn איכנס, תיכנס, תיכנסי, ייכנס, תיכנס, ניכנס, תיכנסו and ייכנסו. Contemporary plural תיכנסו and ייכנסו can refer to female groups too. Pointed or older texts may omit a vowel letter that ordinary full spelling includes.

The Whole Written Form

איכנס and ייכנס are not interchangeable: the first refers to I and the second to he. אתה תיכנס and היא תיכנס share a form, so the subject or context distinguishes them. Do not mechanically attach a future prefix to present נכנס.

Meaning and Direction

להיכנס means enter; it is not necessarily passive. A destination can use ל, as in לחדר. Future ניכנס has an initial personal נ, while the past נכנס has the pattern’s initial נ. Root and pattern analysis must therefore use the actual family and spoken form.

Examples (4)

  1. מחר איכנס למשרד.

    I will enter the office tomorrow.

    איכנס is first-person future in modern full spelling.

  2. את תיכנסי לחדר.

    You will enter the room.

    תיכנסי addresses one female listener.

  3. הוא ייכנס אחרי דנה.

    He will enter after Dana.

    ייכנס is third-person masculine singular.

  4. אנחנו ניכנס ביחד.

    We will enter together.

    ניכנס identifies we in the future.

Common Mistakes

  • Confusing the I and he future forms.

    אני ייכנס לחדר.
    אני איכנס לחדר.

    The first-person future begins with א; ייכנס refers to he.

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Nif'al in the FutureLevel 3

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Use the actual Nif'al future paradigm with the familiar person distinctions.

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