• 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.
• Today, we will look at the second type; The Mahmouz Verb الفعل المهموز

Definition:

                     A Mahmouz verb is that which has a Hamza in its root (base).

* The Hamza can come: 

            1) At the beginning of the base verb; e.g. أكلَ  ( = ate ).

            2) In the middle of the base verb; e.g. سألَ ( = asked ).

            3) At the end of the base verb; e.g. قرأ ( = read ).

To learn the different tense forms of this category of verbs, let’s study this table:

(Note 1: The rules of gender and number we studied earlier apply to these verb tenses.)

(Note 2: Some verbs starting with Hamza when used with “I” , The Hamzah changes to the long Alif with Maddah at the beginning; e.g. أكل >>> آكُلُ = I eat, and أخَذَ >>> آخُذُ = I take.)

(Note 3: The Hamza is dropped in the imperative form of some verbs; e.g. خُذ , كُلْ , سلْ .)

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Next time, we will continue looking at Healthy Doubled Verbs.  

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