Chapter 2: Noun Morphology (Gender and Number)
In this chapter, Bartelt goes over the basic noun forms and discusses various patterns of vowel reduction when adding syllables to nouns.
Resource #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJenAH-zNDw&ab_channel=WTSHebrewPlayers
This video reviews how to form basic nouns and provides nice visual examples to reinforce the material. It also previews how Hebrew adjectives operate under the same rules and how one can make indefinite nouns definite.
Resource #2: Chapters 6 (pp.20-25) & 8 (pp.32-38) of A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, written by Jo Ann Hackett (can be found in our library with the following call number: PJ4567.3 H23 2010).
These chapters of Hackett's text are great resources for further reinforcement of the mechanics of Hebrew introduced in Ch. 2 of Bartelt. Ch. 6 deals with the Hebrew syllable and talks more about vowels and how they are affected by added syllables. Ch. 8 specifically addresses the intersection of nouns/adjectives and vowels and introduces the definite article and conjunctions. Each chapter has helpful and challenging exercises as well.
Resource #3: Chapter 13 (pp.59-66) of Biblical Hebrew for Beginners, written by P. Rajendra Babu (can be found in our library with the following call number: PJ4567.5 B338 2011).
This chapter of Babu's text succinctly recaps how Hebrew nouns function and are formed and gives a multitude of examples for each noun case. Babu also introduces the notion of construct nouns, which will come in handy once you begin forming clauses and sentences.