A few mysteries from a new user

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Hi,

I have been using Dulolingo for the past few months & this site was mentioned. I am getting upset though because there are things I just don’t get.

1: new vocabulary words. There are letters after the words (M) (F) I get those but WHAT is (W)??? And why isn’t there any explanation?

  1. The verb form is weird too שב for sit for instance.

Thanks

Tha

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שלום
Elainer6
Have you tried to tag the course creator?
Which course are you learning? Could you give an example for
the strange W?

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I can’t answer the W question, but as regards the strange verb form for “sit”:
First-yodh verbs like ישׁב sometimes lose their initial yodh in certain forms. First-weak and middle-weak verbs also tend to pattern together such that often there are parallel words, one of each kind, or a confusion of homonyms derived from one root or the other and producing similar forms (in this case the other root would be שׁוב, to return).

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Sorry I’m a bit late. Can you please tell me where you saw (W)? I have no idea what that is.
Regarding the verb form, שב is the imperative (m,s) of the infinitive לשבת (to sit).