L1.7: Verbless Sentences#

Akkadian, as well as Hebrew, can build sentences without verbs, only by juxtaposing the subject and the predicate. The tense in these sentences can be determined only by the context.

Verbless Sentence

Translation

Hammurapi šar Babilim

Hammurapi is the king of Babilon

šarrum gitmālum anāku

I am the perfect king