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Root Verb
اِشْتَرَى
ishtara
to buy
ش ر ي
This is a Form VIII defective verb; the final weak root letter (ي) is dropped in the third-person feminine singular and plural forms, and changes to alif maqsurah in the third-person masculine singular past.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I bought"
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.