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Root Verb
تَزَوَّجَ
tazawwaja
to get married
ز و ج
Although the root is hollow (middle letter waw), the doubled middle radical in Form V means it conjugates entirely regularly like a sound verb.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I got married"
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.