Conjugate Arabic Verbs in Past Tense
Edited by Hotelier, priya, Eng
Hello, and thank you for watching VisiHow. Today, we will show you how to conjugate most regular Arabic verbs in the past tense for all people.
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- 1We will conjugate this starting "ana" for "I", "anta" for "you" masculine, "anti" for "you" feminine, "huwa" for "he", "hiya" for "she", "nahnu" for "we", "antum" for "you" plural masculine, "antunna" for "you" plural feminine, "hum" for "they" masculine, and "hunna" for "they" feminine.We will first demonstrate this using the verb "fa'ala", which means "to make" or "to do".
- 2In each case, it's just slightly different. As a note, when we add the suffix, this is the person marker, so we do not need to write the pronoun as well. It will be implied by the suffix that gets attached to the verb.We conjugate verbs in the past tense by adding a suffix to the end of the root, which "fa'ala".
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- 15We can substitute "dahaba" for "fa'ala", and add the endings in the same way since these verbs conjugate in the same way in the past tense. Let's write those just to the left of the "fa'ala" conjugations so we can see how those look as well.Let's take a second verb, such as "dahaba", which means "to go" in Arabic.
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- 26This does conclude today's tutorial on how to form the past tense of most regular verbs in the Arabic language for all people. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please leave them in the space below.Many of the other regular forms with three letters will follow this same pattern.
Video: Conjugate Arabic Verbs in Past Tense
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