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Root Verb
قعد
ʔa3ad
to stay
ق ع د
The letter qaf (ق) is pronounced as a glottal stop (represented by 'a'). Although 'a3ad' is generally intransitive, the object suffixes are structurally generated here for completeness.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I stayed"
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.