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Root Verb
رد
radd
to answer
ر د د
As a doubled (geminate) verb, the second and third root letters are identical, causing the stem to end in a double consonant and taking an '-ey-' infix before consonant-initial suffixes in the past tense.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I answered"
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.