vav-consecutive

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Noun

1. {{c|en|Semitic linguistics|Hebrew linguistics}} {{lb|en|linguistics}} a [[grammatical]] feature of {{w|Biblical Hebrew}} and, to a lesser extent, other {{w|Northwest Semitic languages}}, which allows for a verb's [[aspect]] or [[tense]] to be [[flipped]] to its inverse when preceded by the conjunction {{m|he|וְ־|tr=wə-|t=and}}

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