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Arabic Irregular Verbs: Weak Verbs Posted by on Feb 24, 2010 in Arabic Language, Grammar

This post deals with conjugation of verbs that have a final vowel. They are called weak verbs(الفعل الناقص), e.g. (رَمَى) “threw” and (نما) “grew”, etc. In the past tense, the final vowel is returned to its origin, and it disappears with some pronouns, i.e. (هي), (هم) and (هما) feminine only for the last one. Consider the examples below.

نما

رَمَى

نَمَوتُ

رَمَيتُ

أنا

نَمَوتَ

رَمَيتَ

أنتَ

نَمَوتِ

رَمَيتِ

أنتِ

نَما

رَمَى

هو

نَمَت

رَمَت

هي

نَمَوا

رَمَيا

هماm

نَمَتا

رَمَتا

هما f

نَمَونا

رَمَينا

نحن

نَمَوتما

رَمَيتما

أنتما

نَمَوتم

رَمَيتم

أنتم

نَمَوتن

رَمَيتن

أنتن

نَمَوا

رَمَوا

هم

نَمَونَ

رَمَينَ

هنّ

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Comments:

  1. Jason Kilborn:

    Did you mean to put a faTHa above the miim in both of the hom forms (ramau and namau)? I thought it was Damma (ramuu, namuu) . . .

  2. Aziza:

    Ahlan Jason,
    It is fatHa not Damma.
    Salaam,
    Aziza

  3. Laiba:

    you mean instead of saying: ana ramai
    I should say: RAMAITU?!