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Root Verb
جرى
gara
to happen
ج ر ي
This is a defective verb (ends in a weak letter). While mathematically conjugated here for all persons, in daily conversation it is primarily used in the 3rd person to mean 'to happen' (e.g., eh elli gara - what happened).
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I happened"
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.