Arabic: An Essential Grammar

(5) At the conference one of the members of the delegation congratulated the historian on his famous works. (6) The number of re ...

231 Chapter 31 Verbs with a weak initial radical 31.1 The weak verbs, لـ ُةَّاْ َلأ ْف َعا ُل ْلـ ُم ْع َتَ, which literally m ...

Note: It may be difficult to find the root in the dictionary when the first initial weak radical of the imperfect and imperative ...

‘to deposit’. Its verbal noun (mas ̇ dar) is ِإ ْس ِتي َدا ٌع
istı ̄da ̄  un ‘lodging, depositing’ (for: إ ْس ِت ْو َدا ٌع
...

1 ِنَأ َدْعَب 2 يِف ) َظِقَي X ( ُتْظَقْيَتْس 3 vِحاَب َّ صل 4 ) َلَصَو IIIV ( ُتْلـَص َّتِإ يِتَقيِدَصِب 5 اًّ يِفِتاَه 6 ىلَ ...

1 َتوُرْيَب ىَلِإ ) َلَصَو V ( ُلِصَي 2 (^) ٌّ يِتيَوُك ٌدْفَو اًدَغ 3 َةَراَزِو ُلِّثَمُي 4 ِطْف َّ نل 5 َرْوَفَو ِهِلوُصُو 6 ...

1 ) َظِقَي X ( َظَقْيَتْسِإ 2 ) ٌحِئاَس ( ُحا َّوُّ سل 3 يِف اًرِكاَب 4 ِحاَب َّ صل 5 اوُع َ ّدَوُيِل ) َعَدَو II ( 6 ) ٌقيِدَ ...

237 Chapter 32 Verbs with a weak middle radical 32.1 Verbs with a weak middle radical, َأْل ِف ْع ُل ْ َلأ ْج َو ُف, are those ...

(Remember from chapter 20 that ي is related to kasrah /i/.) 32.3 In the imperfect indicative and subjunctive, the weak middle ra ...

See conjugation A2.11 of the verb َخا َف in Appendix 2. 32.5 The weak middle radical ..و.. /w/ also becomes ...ـيـ.. /y/ in the ...

Note: The passive participle of such verbs is rare. 32.7 The verbal nouns of roots with a weak middle radical are similar to the ...

(a) Past perfect (pluperfect) َكا َن ) َق ْد( َك َت َب ka ̄na (qad) kataba, he had written ّر َساَل َةََك َت َب ل )َق ْد (ما َش ...

Exercises Practise your reading: اَّ مَـل 1 َجَرَخ 2 َنِم ُقاَعُمـْل 3 َناَك ِةَرِئا َّ طل 4 ىَلَع )َأَكَو IIIV ( اًئِك َّتُم ...

02 ّصل ِ vِةَي ّحَ 12 َراَصَو 22 َنِم ُفاَخَي 32 ِتْوَمـْل 42 َلا :ُهَل ُتْلُقَف 52 َّ نِإَف ْفَخَت 62 َرْمُعْل 72 لـل ِدَيِ ...

1 َنا َّ مَع ىَلِإ ُتْرَفاَس 2 َروُزَِلأ 3 اًقيِدَص 4 يِل 5 ْدَقَو َكاَنُه ُنُكْسَي 6 اَنْمُق 7 اًعَم 8 ىَلَع ِةَبَقَعْل ِةَنيِ ...

(11) The young man let the guest sit on a chair in the sitting room. (12) My grandmother began to be afraid of death. I told her ...

246 Chapter 33 Verbs with a weak final radical, doubly weak verbs and weak verbs with hamzah 33.1 Verbs with a weak final radica ...

33.4 If the final radical is ي /y/ and the middle radical has the vowel fath ̇ ah /a/, then the basic form ends in
alif maqs ̇ ...

33.7 The passive of all verbs with a weak final radical و... /w/ or ي... /y/ is conjugated according to the same pattern as the ...

33.10 Doubly weak verbs Some of the most common verbs have the two weak radicals و /w/ and ي /y/. They are called in Arabic ل ِف ...