In the previous post, I explained that the verbal noun (المصدر) is a very important noun that refers to the action implied in the verb, e.g. (كتابة) “writing” -as a process-, derived from the verb (كتب) “to write”. I also explained that there is not a single pattern to follow to form the verbal noun from form I verbs. In this post, I explain how we can derive (المصدر) from form II- form V verbs.

• Form II  verbs which follow the pattern (فعَّلَ), have a verbal noun following the pattern (تفعيل), e.g. (درّس) “to teach” has a verbal noun (تدريس) “teaching”.

أحب تدريس اللغة العربية.

“I like teaching Arabic”.

• Form III verbs which follow the pattern (فاعَلَ), have a verbal noun following two patterns (مُفاعَلة) and (فِعال), e.g. (ناقش) “to discuss” has a verbal noun (مناقشة) “discussion” and (نقاش) “discussion”. Sometimes, there are fine differences between both words in meaning, and sometimes they have very similar meanings and are interchangeable. Sometime, we have only one form only in use and the other one is not, e.g. (بادل) “to exchange”, we have (مبادلة) only.

لن أناقش هذا الموضوع مرة أخرى لأن النقاش لا جدوى منه.           

“I will not discuss this topic again because the discussion is useless”.

• Form IV verbs which follow the pattern (أفعَلَ), have a verbal noun following the pattern (إفعال), e.g. (أشرف) “to supervise” has a verbal noun (إشراف) “supervision”.

وجدت إشراف أستاذتي على بحثي مفيداً جداً.

“I found the supervision of my professor very useful”.

• Form V verbs which follow the pattern (تفعَّلَ), have a verbal noun following the pattern (تفعُّل), e.g. (تعلَّم) “to learn” has a verbal noun (تعلُّم) “learning”.

تعلُّم اللغة العربية يتطلب الكثير من الجهد.

“Learning Arabic requires a lot of effort”.