1890: Intensive Forms (Binyanim) Feb 17, 2020

Certainly there are intensive forms for certain words like 'shatter' to 'break', but these sorts of form exist well beyond just the lexicon or phrases, like 'bloody well' in "I bloody well will do that". In Hebrew, there is a distinction in which binyan—essentially which vowel templates get added into the verbs themselves—is used, meaning that all verbs etc. can have a distinction between intensive and causative forms in a way that is only possible, sometimes, through using totally different words in English.