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Root Verb
لعب
li3ib
to play
ل ع ب
This is a Form I sound verb with a fi3il past stem and a -f3al present stem; the second vowel of the past stem drops when adding vowel-initial suffixes (heya, homma).
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I played"
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.