Root Verb
راح
rah
to go
ر و ح
As a hollow verb, the middle weak root letter disappears in the past tense when a consonant-initial suffix is attached, resulting in a short 'u' vowel (e.g., ru7t instead of ra7t). Note that 'rah' is an intransitive verb, so attaching direct object pronouns is grammatically and semantically unnatural, but provided here for morphological completeness.
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أنا
I — "I went"
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.