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Irregular Verbs in Arabic (Part 2): Doubled Verbs in Present Tense Posted by on Jan 12, 2010 in Grammar

In this post, I present doubled verbs (الفعل المضعف) in the present tense. Examples of doubled verbs are (شدّ) ‘pulled’, (ظنّ) ‘thought’, (استعدّ) ‘got prepared’, (استمرّ) ‘continued’, etc. Just like past tense verbs, with some pronouns the doubled letter has to be repeated twice, while with others, it remains one letter with shadda. The table below gives 2 examples of doubled verbs conjugated in the present tense. The two pronouns that require the use of the last letter twice are (هنّ) and (أنتنّ), and it is presented in bold in the table.

استعدّ

أحبّ

أستعدُّ

أحبُّ

أنا

تستعدّ

تحبُّ

أنتَ

تستعدّين

تحبّين

أنتِ

يستعدّ

يحبُّ

هو

تستعدّ

تحبُّ

هي

يستعدّان

يحبّان

هما m

تستعدّان

تحبّان

هما f

نستعدّ

نحبُّ

نحن

تستعدّان

تحبّان

أنتما

يستعدّون

تحبّون

هم

يستعددن

يحببن

هنّ

تستعددن

تحببن

أنتنّ

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