בא
See also: באַ and Variations of "ba"
בא - Hebrew
Verb
בָּא • (ba) (pa'al construction, future יָבוֹא)
- To come.
- (colloquial, constructed with ל־ (l-)) Used in expressing a desire or impulse, or lack thereof.
- בא לך לטייל קצת?
- ba l'khá/lakh l'tayél ktzat?
- (literally) [Does it] come to you to tour a bit? (idiomatically) Do you feel like going for a walk?
- לא בא לי ללכת לים.
- lo ba li lalékhet la-yám.
- (literally) [It] doesn't come to me to go to the sea. (idiomatically) I don't feel like going to the beach.
- (only in imperative mood) let us/let's; used with the first-person-plural future-tense form of a verb to produce its cohortative.
- בוא נדבר על זה מחר.
- bo n'dabér al ze makhár.
- (literally) Come we'll talk about this tomorrow. (idiomatically) Let's talk about this tomorrow.
- To enter, to go in.
Conjugation
| non-finite forms |
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| finite forms | singular | plural | |||
| m. | f. | m. | f. | ||
| past | first | בָּאתִי | בָּאנוּ | ||
| second | בָּאתָ | בָּאת | בָּאתֶם | בָּאתֶן | |
| third | בָּא | בָּאָה | בָּאוּ | ||
| present | בָּא | בָּאָה | בָּאִים | בָּאוֹת | |
| future | first | אָבוֹא | נָבוֹא | ||
| second | תָּבוֹא | תָּבוֹאִי | תָּבוֹאוּ | תבואנה / תָּבֹאנָה1 | |
| third | יָבוֹא | תָּבוֹא | יָבוֹאוּ | תבואנה / תָּבֹאנָה1 | |
| imperative | בּוֹא | בּוֹאִי | בּוֹאוּ | בואנה / בֹּאנָה1 | |
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Derived terms
- בָּא בַּיָּמִים (ba bayamím)
- בָּא לְ־ (ba l-)
- בָּא עַל הֶחָתוּם (ba al hechatúm)
Adjective
בָּא • (ba) (feminine בָּאָה, masculine plural בָּאִים, feminine plural בָּאוֹת)
Antonyms
- קוֹדֵם (kodém)