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Root Verb
أَنْهَى
anha
to finish
ن ه ي
Form IV defective verb; the final weak letter appears as ya' in most forms but is dropped in the third-person feminine singular and masculine plural past, as well as the masculine plural and feminine singular present.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I finished"
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.