Quranic Arabic Unit 7 Grammar

Quranic Arabic Unit 7 Grammar

Types of verbs in Arabic

regular and irregular

Arabic irregular verbs

A verb is irregular in Arabic:

- If one of the root letters is a WEAK letter (ا، و، ي)

- If the second and third root letters are the same

قُلْتُ

I said

قُلْتَ

you said (2nd p sing masc)

قُلْتِ

you said (2nd p sing fem)

قَالَ

he said

قُلْنَا

we said

قُلْتُمْ

you all said

قَالُوا

they said (m)

كُنْتُ

I was

كُنْتَ

you were (m)

كُنْتِ

you were (f)

كَانَ

he was

كُنَّا

we were

كُنْتُمْ

you all were

كَانُوا

they were (m)