Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar, Third Edition by Jane Wightwick

Author:Jane Wightwick
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2017-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

The teachers attended a meeting and agreed on the program for the upcoming year.

The girls wrote letters and then went out.

The subject of the first sentence above is masculine plural (mudarrisuuna – teachers). The first verb (HaDara – attended) is in the masculine singular because it comes before the subject. The second verb (ittafaquu – agreed) has the plural ending uu since it comes after the subject. The same is true of the second sentence, except that the subject is now feminine plural (banaat – girls) and so the feminine singular ending at (katabat – wrote) and feminine plural ending na (kharajna – went out) are used.

These are the basic guidelines for using verbs. You will become more aware of subtle style differences through reading and absorbing Arabic that is written in a natural style by native speakers.

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