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Root Verb
اِسْتَغْرَبَ
istaghraba
to find strange
غ ر ب
Form X verbs often carry the meaning of considering or finding something to have the quality of the root; here, finding something strange (gharib).
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I found strange"
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.