Hebrew Verb Conjugation Marathon

Learn to conjugate the 24 most important Hebrew verbs in present, past and future. Full tables with transliteration and audio, a plain-English guide to roots and binyanim, plus a practice engine (multiple choice and typing, mistakes first).

24 verbs3 tenses568 forms
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Conjugation tables

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present
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ืขื‘ืจ
past
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ืขืชื™ื“
future
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Which verbs

ืœื”ื™ื•ืชto be
ื™ืฉ ืœึพto have (yesh li construction)
ืœืขืฉื•ืชto do/make
ืœืœื›ืชto go
ืœื‘ื•ืto come
ืœืจืฆื•ืชto want
ืœื”ื™ื•ืช ื™ื›ื•ืœto be able (can)
ืœื•ืžืจto say
ืœืจืื•ืชto see
ืœื“ืขืชto know
ืœืื›ื•ืœto eat
ืœืฉืชื•ืชto drink
ืœื“ื‘ืจto speak
ืœื—ื™ื•ืชto live
ืœืขื‘ื•ื“to work
ืœืœืžื•ื“to study
ืœืงื ื•ืชto buy
ืœืชืชto give
ืœืงื—ืชto take
ืœืื”ื•ื‘to love
ืœื›ืชื•ื‘to write
ืœืงืจื•ืto read
ืœื™ืฉื•ืŸto sleep
ืœื—ืฉื•ื‘to think

How Hebrew verbs work

The 24 verbs you will use every single day โ€” in the three living tenses of modern Hebrew, with transliteration, audio and real practice.

Hebrew verbs feel intimidating at first, and then suddenly they don't. The secret is that almost every verb is built from a three-letter root (ืฉึนืืจึถืฉื, shoresh) poured into a fixed pattern (ื‘ึดึผื ึฐื™ึธืŸ, binyan). Learn the pattern once and you can conjugate hundreds of verbs you have never seen before. Unlike English or the Romance languages, Hebrew gets by with only three tenses โ€” present, past and future โ€” and there is no infinitive-plus-auxiliary machinery to memorise.

Two things surprise English speakers most. First, the present tense behaves like an adjective: it changes for gender and number, not for person โ€” the same word covers "I write / you write / he writes" as long as the speaker is masculine singular. Second, the past and future encode the person inside the verb through endings and prefixes, so the pronoun is often optional. Master those two ideas and the tables below stop being lists to cram and become patterns you can feel.

Everything here is arranged for that. Read the short guide to roots and binyanim, skim the full tables (tap ๐Ÿ”Š to hear each verb), then open the practice engine and drill until the forms are automatic โ€” mistakes come back first.