התנפח

Hebrew

Root
נ־פ־ח (n-p-kh)
6 terms

Verb

הִתְנַפֵּחַ • (hitnapéakh) (hitpa'el construction)

  1. to become inflated, to swell
    • 2019, 13:37 from the start, in Our Boys, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Simon (Shlomi Elkabetz):
      ישך פה בלון שמתנפח ומתנפח, תקווה, תקווה, תקווה.
      It's a balloon that keeps getting bigger, hope, hope, hope.
      (literally, “You have a balloon here that swells and swells, hope, hope, hope.”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of הִתְנַפֵּחַ (see also Appendix:Hebrew verbs)
non-finite forms to-infinitive לְהִתְנַפֵּחַ
action noun הִתְנַפְּחוּת
finite forms singular plural
m f m f
past first הִתְנַפַּחְתִּי הִתְנַפַּחְנוּ
second הִתְנַפַּחְתָּ הִתְנַפַּחְתְּ הִתְנַפַּחְתֶּם הִתְנַפַּחְתֶּן
third הִתְנַפֵּחַ הִתְנַפְּחָה הִתְנַפְּחוּ
present מִתְנַפֵּחַ מִתְנַפַּחַת מִתְנַפְּחִים מִתְנַפְּחוֹת
future first אֶתְנַפֵּחַ נִתְנַפֵּחַ
second תִּתְנַפֵּחַ תִּתְנַפְּחִי תִּתְנַפְּחוּ תִּתְנַפַּחְנָה1
third יִתְנַפֵּחַ תִּתְנַפֵּחַ יִתְנַפְּחוּ תִּתְנַפַּחְנָה1
imperative הִתְנַפֵּחַ הִתְנַפְּחִי הִתְנַפְּחוּ הִתְנַפַּחְנָה1

1 Rare in Modern Hebrew.