book1_handouts-corrected 6-sound triliteral verbs
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Sound Triliteral Verbs.doc Page 6
Paradigm of the Unaugmented Triliteral Verb Group I - I Group I - A Group U - U Group A - A Group A - I Group A - U
() () () () () () : : : : : :
He thought He heard He became noble He opened He struck or hit He helped
He inherited He understood He moved away He went He sat He wrote
He played He became larger, bigger
He bowed down
He washed He entered
He memorized,
protected He approached He raised He returned He seeked
He drank
He did He descended He prostrated
He laughed He searched He broke He killed
He became happy
He cut He knew He studied
He rode
He gathered He lied He lived
He worked He prevented He was patient He thanked
He knew
He explained He triumphed ,
overpowered He cooked
He showed mercy upon
He succeeded He carried He created
He followed He benefited He looked
He began He left
He asked
He attended
He read
He failed
He provided ,
bestowed or blessed
He remembered or mentioned
He worshipped
He came out or exited
He ordered
He ate
He took
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Sound Triliteral Verbs.doc Page 7
The Conjugation of the Past Tense - Please remember that in Arabic Verbs the doer of the action ( ) is ALWAYS present. Either attached or in its hidden form.
Suffix
He wrote NIL They (2 men) wrote Alif of Dual )( They (more than 2 men) wrote Waw of Plural )( She wrote
Ta is the sign of
feminine
They (2 women) wrote )( + They (more than 2 women) wrote
Nun of the women
kind
You (man) wrote You (2 men) wrote You (more than 2 men) wrote You (woman) wrote You (2 women) wrote You (more than 2 women) wrote I (male or female) wrote We (male or female) wrote - hidden, implied, understood, tacit. - The subject, i.e., the doer of the action.
The of the third form () is not pronounced, though it must be written. It is called (the alif of protection). It protects verbs like (they took) where the is not joined to the body of the verb and therefore may be mistaken for the conjunction meaning and. Out of the fourteen forms, in 12 forms the doer is attached ( ). Only in two forms, i.e., and it can be hidden or it comes after the verb in the sentence.