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Active and Passive in Arabic: Practice and Examples Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jul 31, 2018
In the previous post, you learned about the passive voice المَبْنِي لِلْمَجْهُول in Arabic, and how an active مَعْلُوم sentence is changed into passive مَجْهُول. Besides leaving some words out from the active sentence, verbal internal (i.e. non-final) diacritical marks or short vowels must change. This is essentially the most obvious change in verb forms…
Arabic Verb Forms [Perfective vs. Imperfective] Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jun 9, 2017
In Arabic, the time during which an action takes place determines the Verb Form. In talking about a completed action, we use the Perfective Form of the verb الفِعْلُ المَاضِي. If the action happens at the time of speaking or expresses habits and/or facts, we use the Imperfective Form of the verb الفِعْلُ المُضَارع. Since…