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Arabic Irregular Verbs: Hollow Verbs (Part 2) Posted by on Feb 6, 2010 in Grammar

This post deals with conjugation of verbs that have a medial vowel (ا). They are called hollow verbs(الفعل الأجوف), e.g. (نام) ‘slept’, (باع) ‘sold’, (قام) ‘got up’, etc. In the past tense, the medial vowel disappears with some pronouns, i.e. first and second person pronouns in addition to the third person feminine plural pronoun. The examples below give examples of three verbs conjugated in the past.

قام

باع

نام

قُمتُ

بِعتُ

نَمتُ

أنا

قُمتَ

بِعتَ

نَمتَ

أنتَ

قُمتِ

بِعتِ

نَمتِ

أنتِ

قام

باع

نام

هو

قامت

باعت

نامت

هي

قاما

باعا

ناما

هما m

قامتا

باعتا

نامتا

هما (f)

قُمنا

بِعنا

نَمنا

نحن

قُمتما

بِعتما

نَمتما

أنتما

قاموا

باعوا

ناموا

هم

قُمنَ

بِعنَ

نَمنَ

هنّ

قُمتنّ

بِعتنّ

نَمتنّ

أنتنّ

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  1. Nas:

    Isn’t it نِمْتُ for I slept?