Archive for 'Grammar'
Weak Verbs: The Naaqis (Defective) Verb الفعل الناقص Posted by Fisal on Jun 1, 2011
We said before that a weak verb is that which has one or two sick letters in its base (root). The letters that make a verb weak are: Waw (و ), Alif (ا ) and Yaa (ى ). The position of the sick letter in the root verb determines the type of the weak verb…
Weak Verbs: The Agwaf (Hollow) Verb الفعل الأجوف Posted by Fisal on May 30, 2011
We have said before that a weak/sick verb is that which has one or two sick letters in its base (root). The letters that make a verb sick/weak are: Waw (و ), Alif (ا ) and Yaa (ى ). The position of the sick letter in the root verb determines the type of the weak…
Weak (Sick) Verbs: The Mithaal Verb الفعل المِثال Posted by Fisal on May 25, 2011
We have previously discussed the three types of the Healthy (Sound/strong) Verbs الأفعال الصحيحة . Today, will start looking at Unhealthy (Sick/weak) Verbs الأفعال المعتلة. A sick/weak verb is that which has one or two sick letters in its base (root). The letters that make a verb sick/weak are: Waw (و ), Alif (ا )…
Healthy Verbs: The Doubled Verb الفعل المضعّـف Posted by Fisal on May 9, 2011
Today, we will look at the third and last type of Healthy (Sound) Verbs; The Doubled Verb الفعل المضعّـف . Now what is meant by that name? Definition: A Doubled Verb is that which has a two repeated or doubled letters in its root (base). * This type of verb can be divided into two…
Healthy Verbs: The Mahmouz Verb الفعل المهموز Posted by Fisal on May 7, 2011
We have said before that there are healthy and unhealthy verbs. A Healthy Verb is that verb that doesn’t have any sick letters in its root (base). The sick letters that make the verb sick are و , ا , ى . We talked before about the first type of healthy verbs; the Salim verb…
Verb Health:The Sound (Salim) Verb الفعل السالم Posted by Fisal on May 2, 2011
In previous posts, we have discussed that there healthy and unhealthy verbs. A Healthy Verb is that verb that doesn’t have any sick letters in its root (base). The sick letters that make the verb sick are و , ا , ى . Healthy Verbs have three types: (Salim / Mahmouz / Doubled). Today, we…
Verb Tense: (3) The Imperative الأمر Posted by Fisal on Apr 27, 2011
We spoke earlier about the past and present tenses. Today, we are going to discuss the imperatives and learn how to get them from regular verbs. The imperative refers to a request or command, so its meaning refers mainly to the future. The imperative is derived from the present tense. It ends in a sukkoon…