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Root Verb
نِجِح
nigih
to succeed
ن ج ح
The verb is a Form I sound verb. It is primarily intransitive (often taking the preposition 'fi' for succeeding in something), but direct object suffixes are conjugated here mechanically.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I succeeded"
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.