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Root Verb
غِرِق
ghiriʔ
to sink
غ ر ق
This is an intransitive verb meaning 'to sink' or 'to drown'. The root letter qaf is transliterated as 'q' but pronounced as a glottal stop. The past tense has a CiCiC pattern, eliding the second 'i' before vowel suffixes (e.g., ghirqit). Object pronouns are rarely used in practice.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I sank"
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.