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Root Verb
بكى
bka
to cry
ب ك ي
This is a Form I defective verb (ending in a weak letter), so its past tense takes '-it' suffixes and its present plural takes '-iw'. Note that in Moroccan Darija, the Egyptian word for crying (عيط) means 'to call' or 'to shout' instead.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I cried"
How these tenses work
The present tense
Person prefixes, plus the dialect's marker for "now" or "usually".
The past tense
One stem, eight endings.
The future
One small prefix or word in front of the present.
Saying "not"
Negating verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Roots and verb forms (Form I–X)
How three root letters and a pattern make a verb.
Verb classes: sound, hollow, defective, doubled
Why some verbs change shape when they conjugate.