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Root Verb
كلى
kla
to eat
ء ك ل
This verb is highly irregular; it behaves like a defective verb in the past tense (kla) but has a unique pattern in the present/future with a long 'a' (nakul).
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I ate"
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.