Waw-conjunctive
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The conjunctive waw or vav conjunctive (Hebrew: ו' החיבור vav hakhibur) is the coordinating conjunction meaning 'and' in Hebrew, spelled with the letter vav.
It is a proclitic—i.e., although its syntactic distribution is that of an independent word, it is pronounced as a prefix attached to the word following it. In Modern Hebrew, it is typically pronounced /ve/, though a prescriptivist tradition recommends pronouncing it as /u/ when followed by a consonant cluster or labial consonant,[1] maintaining a pattern from the Tiberian pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew.[2]
It is distinct from waw-consecutive, which is the Biblical use of vav as a prefix on verbs.
