You covered the waw-consecutive back in college and we have covered it in class noting that it is often a waw "continuative," carrying forward or continuing the action of the preceding verb. Some reminders:
1. The VC Imperfect is formed by waw pointed with patach and followed by dagesh forte.
2. Before the 1st singular it is -וָאֶ; since ﬡ will not allow dagesh forte, the patach is lengthened.
3. There can't be any intervening word or particle between a waw consecutive and its verb (they are attached as a single verb form).
4. When there is a shorter form of an imperfect (the jussive form), such as יְהִי for יִהְיֶה, the waw-consecutive will prefer the shortened form וַיְּהִי, which can only be waw-consecutive imperfect (i.e., there is no such thing as a waw-consecutive jussive).
5. Waw-consecutive imperfects that begin a new section, new chapter, or even a new book, do not really continue anything from the preceding but begin new: "Now it happened that..."
The full list of qal forms are:
3 m sg וַיִּקְטֹל
3 f sg וַתִּקְטֹל
2 m sg וַתִּקְטֹל
2 f sg וַתִּקְטְלִי
1 sg וָאֶקְטֹל
3 m pl וַיִּקְטְלוּ
3 f pl וַתִּקְטֹ֫לְנָה
2 m pl וַתִּקְטְלוּ
2 f pl וַתִּקְטֹ֫לְנָה
1 pl וַנִּקְטֹל
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