Breakdown of שריפת הביסק נעשית בתנור הקרמי.
Questions & Answers about שריפת הביסק נעשית בתנור הקרמי.
Because שריפת is the construct form of שריפה.
In Hebrew, when one noun is linked to another noun to mean X of Y, the first noun often changes form. That structure is called the construct state or סמיכות.
So:
- שריפה = burning / firing
- שריפת הביסק = the firing of the bisque / the bisque firing
The final -ת is a very common sign that a feminine noun has gone into the construct form.
In a construct chain, definiteness is usually determined by the last noun, not by the first one.
So in:
- שריפת הביסק
the second noun, הביסק, is definite because it has ה־. That makes the whole phrase definite: the bisque firing.
This is different from English, where we usually mark definiteness only once with the, but the logic is similar: the whole unit is definite because its ending is definite.