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Weak Verbs: The Agwaf (Hollow) Verb الفعل الأجوف Posted by 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…

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