Often is a causative version of the form 1 verbĪnd here's a table of all the verb forms, including their perfect and imperfect conjugations ( الماضي والمضارع), active and passive participles ( اسم الفاعل واسم المفعول), and verbal nouns ( المصدر). (This is all taken from old handouts I got at the AUC, so it's not my original work.) Form 1 - فعل (fa3ala)Įxpresses the general verbal meaning of the root in questionīuilt on form 1 by doubling the middle radical of the form 1 verb (adding a shadda to it) Here's a more detailed breakdown, using فعل (fa3ala, to do) as an example. Each form has a basic meaning associated with the general meaning of the root being used. (Forms 11 through 15 are very rare, so people usually just focus on forms 1 through 10, although 9 is also pretty rare). And each trilateral Arabic root can theoretically be transformed into one of fifteen possible verb forms ( الأوزان, al-awzaan). Most Arabic words are derived from a three-letter (trilateral) root.
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