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Root Verb
خِسِر
xisir
to lose
خ س ر
A regular Form I sound verb. It follows the Fi3iL pattern in the past tense, resulting in vowel elision when suffixes beginning with a vowel are added (e.g., khisir + it -> khisrit). The present tense follows the yiF3aL pattern.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I lost"
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.