in declined forms of nouns Common noun patterns in which kubutz appears in the declined form are: Declined forms of words, whose roots' second and third letter are the same, and which have a holam haser in the last syllable of their base form: דֻּבִּים ('bears') , the plural of דֹּב , root ד־ב־ב‎; כֻּלָּם ('all of them') , a declined form of כֹּל , root כ־ל־ל. All these words are written with vav in texts without niqqud: דובים‎, דוב‎, כולם‎, כול‎. Declined forms of words which have the pattern /CaCoC/ in the singular and become /CəCuCCim/ in the plural: צָהֹב ('yellow', ), pl. צְהֻבִּים (), עָגֹל ('round', ), pl. עֲגֻלִּים (). Without niqqud: צהוב, צהובים‎, עגול‎, עגולים‎. Exception: מָתוֹק ('sweet', ), pl. מְתוּקִים (), with holam gadol and shuruk and without dagesh. Some words, in the base form of which the penultimate syllable has and is stressed (sometimes called seggolate), may be written with kubutz or with kamatz katan when declined. For example, base form: מַשְׂכֹּרֶת (wage, ); declined: מַשְׂכָּרְתָּהּ or מַשְׂכֻּרְתָּהּ , both being normative spellings and pronunciations of her wage. Without niqqud, in any case: משכורת‎, משכורתה. The plural form of words which end in ־וּת was in the past written with a kubutz in texts with niqqud: sg. חָנוּת ('shop'), , pl. חֲנֻיּוֹת . In March 2009 the Academy decided to simplify the niqqud of such words by eliminating the dagesh in the letter yodh and changing the kubutz to shuruk: חֲנוּיוֹת‎. This doesn't change the pronunciation, since in modern Hebrew the dagesh is not realized anyway. The spelling without niqqud is also unchanged: חנויות. Kubutz in verbs Kubutz is common in verbs in the passive binyanim pual and huf'al and in some conjugated forms of verbs whose roots' second and third letters are the same. Pual Verbs and participles in the passive binyan pual usually have a kubutz in the first letter of the root: כֻּנַּס ('was gathered') , מקֻבָּל ('acceptable') , without niqqud: כונס‎, מקובל. If the second letter of the root is one of the guttural consonants aleph (א), he (ה), ayin (ע) and resh (ר) - but not heth (ח) -, the kubutz changes to holam haser in a process called tashlum dagesh (תשלום דגש‎): יְתֹאַר ('will be described') , מְדֹרָג ('graded') ; without niqqud: יתואר‎, מדורג. Huf'al Kubutz is used in the prefixes of verbs and participles in the passive binyan