• 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 verb.
• Today, we will look at the second type of weak verbs; the Agwaf Verb الفعل الأجوف .

Definition:

      An Agwaf (Hollow) أجوف Verb is that whose second (middle) letter is sick in its root form.

• Most Agwaf verbs have an Alif (ا ) as its second or middle letter.
• The origin of the middle Alif is mostly a Waw (و ) or a Yaa (ى ) that is turned into an Alif.
• There are a few verbs in which the Waw or Yaa are not turned into an Alif.
• To know the origin of the Alif, get the noun from the verb.

             Examples: – باعَ = to sell (v.) ► بَيْعْ = selling (n.)      ► بَيَعَ (original verb)

                               – صامَ = to fast (v.) ► صَوْمْ = fasting (n.)   ► صَوَمَ (original verb)

The table below shows the different tense forms of this  type of verbs;

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

(Note 2 : The sick letter in threefold Agwaf /Hollow verbs is deleted in Imperative and Present Majzoom verb forms ending in a Sukkoon.)

(Note 3: The Alif is also deleted if the Agwaf threefold verb is attached to the Taa of the subject, the Naa of the subject and the Noon of the Feminine Plural.)

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Next time, we will continue looking at Weak/Sick Defective Verbs.  

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