Arabic Verb Tenses by Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar

Author:Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

EXERCISE 12.14

Change the past tense verb to the equivalent present tense.

EXAMPLE

(we walk/are walking) (we walked)

Other verbs following the same pattern are:

EXERCISE 12.15

Fill in the correct Arabic verb to match the English translation.

EXAMPLE

We walk to the station every day.

Defective verbs: Model 3

Model 3 defective verbs have as the final root letter but kasra as the second vowel of the past tense stem. In the present tense they are distinguished by a final alif maqsra ( ) which changes to a diphthong (ay or aw) when subject endings are added:

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