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Root Verb

كَانَ لَدَيْهِ

kana ladayhi

to have

ل د ي

irregular

"To have" is lada (or 3inda) plus a pronoun ending: ladayya, I have. The past adds kana, the future sayakunu.

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I had"

"to have" in the other dialects