The usual Semitic imperfect-perfect distinction is found — e.g. ''Yantin-Dagan'', ' Dagon gives' (''ntn''); ''Raṣa-Dagan'', ' Dagon was pleased' (rṣy). It included a 3rd-person suffix -''a'' (unlike Akkadian or Hebrew ), and an imperfect vowel -''a''-, as in Arabic rather than the Hebrew and Aramaic -''i''-.
There was a verb form with geminate second consonant — e.g. ''Yabanni-Il'', 'God creates' (root ''bny'').
In several cases where Akkadian has ''ลก'', Amorite, like Hebrew and Arabic , has ''h'', thus ''hu'' 'his', -''haa'' 'her', causative ''h-'' or ''ʔ''- (I. Gelb 1958).
The 1st-person perfect is in -''ti'' (singular), -''nu'' (plural), as in the Canaanite Languages .
SOURCES
D. Cohen, ''Les langues chamito-semitiques'', CNRS: Paris 1985.
I. Gelb, "La lingua degli amoriti", ''Academia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti'' 1958, no. 8, 13, pp. 143-163.
H. B. Huffmon. ''Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts. A Structural and Lexical Study'', Baltimore 1965.
