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Arabic verb drills: every person, every tense

Pick the right form of an everyday verb for a person and a tense, affirmative or negative. 72 verbs with full tables in Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan Darija and Modern Standard Arabic.

A Verb Blitz question: a verb, a pronoun and a tense, with four conjugated forms to choose from

One verb, every person

Each question names a verb, a person (أنا, هي, إحنا…) and a tense. The wrong answers are the same verb for other people or tenses, so you learn the endings and prefixes, not the meanings.

After an answer in Levantine: the right future form highlighted, with its meaning

Each dialect’s own markers

The present is بيفتح in Cairo and Beirut and كيحل in Casablanca. The future is ه in Egyptian, رح in Levantine, غادي in Darija and سـ in Fusha. Every dialect has its own tables, not Fusha with an accent.

Negatives too

About a third of the questions are negative: ما…ش in Egyptian and Darija, ما in Levantine, and ما, لا or لن in Fusha depending on the tense.

Common questions

Are Arabic verbs hard to conjugate?

Less than they look. Each tense uses one set of prefixes and endings for almost every verb, so after a handful of verbs the pattern carries you. The irregulars, like "to come", are the ones to learn by heart.

Which verbs are included?

72 everyday verbs, from to be, to go and to come to to apologise for, to compare and to punish, each with past, present and future in the affirmative and negative.

Why does Fusha have vowel marks and the dialects don’t?

In Fusha, "I opened", "you opened" and "she opened" are all written فتحت without them. The marks keep the forms apart. Dialect forms differ in their letters, so they are written the way people text.

Try it in your dialect

Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan Darija or Modern Standard Arabic. Free to start, no card needed.

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