Hebrew Grammar Rules

the normative rules (which actually noone uses as i'm told) are pretty complicated:

-in front of a labial consonant the vav gets a shuruq, turning it into "u"

- in front of a consonant with a shwa beneath it, the same thing happens, exept when it's a yud - then it gets a cheerek, and the yud is not pronounced as a consonant

-in front of a consonant with a chataf-vowel it gets that vowel without chataf

-in front of a stressed syllable, the vav gets a qamats


i was tought that in my modern hebrew course (and, as i said, was told that noone actually speaks that way) - what it's like for ancient hebrew, i don't know, but i guess it's similar...